Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concluded that Klein was unjustly treated, but he insisted that his interest was purely casual-the sort of thing he would do for any taxpayer. The committee counsel, Adrian W. DeWind, then began reading from one of Washington's most interesting documents, a stenographic log of all Oliphant's telephone conversations and daily appointments, kept by Oliphant's secretary...
Other passages from the log indicated that Bridges discussed the Klein case with BIR officials at least five times. One passage was a warning from Grunewald to Oliphant that Bridges was "a little peeved" about one aspect of the Government's treatment of Klein, but on the whole was happy about the way BIR had handled the case. The evidence seemed to require a much fuller explanation from Bridges, but the committee apparently was unwilling to cross-examine a colleague from the upper chamber. After two hours, in which Bridges' recollection proved very vague, he stepped down from...
Perkins claims the legend of Lowell, "the traditional House," sprung from the High Table. Still Perkins' Tuesday evening sophomore dinners, cucumber sandwiches at Thursday teas, and lighting the Yule log have become traditional, albeit some say they are merely stuffy...
...crew, in heavy clothes and lifejackets, hung on where they could. Carlsen radioed: HOPING TO STAY AFLOAT UNTIL DAY. At dawn the ship rolled and tumbled like a half-submerged log, the red paint on her bottom plainly visible. But she floated. And out beyond her, half hidden by the smoking seas, lay a wallowing covey of rescue ships: the U.S. freighters Southland and War hawk, U.S. military transport General A. W. Greely, the Norwegian tanker H. Westfal-Larsen, the German steamship Arion, the British steamship Sherborne...
Most of the distance they traveled by log canoe, moving overland when rapids and falls made the river too dangerous. Swarms of mosquitoes and jejenes ( a tiny black gnat whose bite raises large welts) harassed them all the way. The high, thick jungle along the river banks cut off the sun and every portage had to be hacked clear with machetes...