Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of Dr. Greenwell's first patients lived in log cabins like the one in which Abraham Lincoln was born, 15 miles from New Haven. To reach them, over rugged trails, Dr. Greenwell often had to leave the buggy and go on horseback. Sometimes he had to walk. He has also answered calls by rowboat and switch engine. Even when roads had been so improved that Dr. Greenwell could make calls by car, many of his patients had to be treated in their out-of-the-way homes because there was no hospital near by. Not until...
...granted Finland credit with no strings attached; 2) paid for 10% or even 15% of Finnish exports to Russia in sterling or dollars; 3) reopened the question of Finnish territory captured by the Red army in World War II. Moscow, said Kekkonen, was preparing to let Finnish lumbermen float log rafts down the Saimaa Canal, which connects their inland lakes with the Baltic, a canal which Russia annexed in 1947. Russia's only condition, said Kekkonen, was that Helsinki should "continue to follow a foreign policy of mutual assistance and friendship between the two countries...
...then that Blaisdell made his decision : instead of allowing Pomona to grow into one big campus, he hit on the idea of an Oxford-like association of small colleges. "There are a lot of students," says he. "who profit most by sitting on the other end of a log with a great teacher. But you can't have that in a large school. No college should be larger than the number of people who can dine together...
...before Darwin made the same claim for the whole human race, the fierce Dafia tribesmen of India's northeast frontier were proudly claiming descent from monkeys. To prove it, they wore false tails, swung happily among tree branches, screeched wildly in apelike imitation of Kipling's Bandar-log and grubbed under stones and logs for beetles which they ate whole and kicking...
Rowing three-quarters of a mile down-stream into a slight headwind, Howard Cushing stroked his eight-oared crew to the championship in the varsity's annual "Hollow Log Regatta." Bliss', Lincoln's and Walcott's boats followed...