Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oneida, now unloading at Bordeaux to bring back a commercial cargo; the Onondaga, in the Caribbean returning with 1,600,000 ft. of lumber from Seattle whither she took Fords; the East Indian being reconditioned at Chester, Pa; the Henry Ford II and Benson Ford (named after a young son of Edsel) in the neighborhood of the Sao Canal, one carrying Ford products, the other returning with a commercial cargo. All carry the "Bluebird" ensign chose by Mr. Ford himself; cf. Maeterlinck...
...Even lumber can be made out of corn cobs, where high tensile strength is not required. The weight of this synthetic lumber is about that of the lighter woods, and it can be worked by regular woodworking tools. It has been found a successful substitute for even birch wood in making spools, as well as in making picture frames, moldings and wall boards...
...large man, Stewart Edward White, ather slight, in fact, small of hand, small of feature, finely drawn lines, academic, refined, wearing glasses -a proper man for a writing desk, for an 18th Century escritoire even. But he has put in some few solid years lumber jacking, he has hunted and trapped in nearly every wild section of the world. "For my part, I am going to give the lion and the tiger a sporting chance. I shall hunt them with the bow and arrow...
Many who were present at that performance came from farther than 21 miles away. The Ravinia opera pavilion, built in 1905 of pine lumber, has remarkably fine acoustics. Said Otto Kahn, famed banker and music patron: "It is like a fine old Stradivarius violin...
...lovers could desire and sets the ball rolling for the man who talks a good track meet. Among the reprints, which follow this, there is "Rowing in the Fifties" by President Eliot, an article designed to recall that crew at Harvard originated when the Cambridge oarsmen used to low lumber home from Boston...