Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needs and crises loom large and take the attention from the movement as a whole. For instance, bills have been brought into Congress time after time, before that body has been prepared for them by an expression of public opinion sufficient to counteract the pressure brought on legislators by lumber interests. The main reason for the failure of progressive action has been the lack of popular interest...
With the recent opposition to Mr. Hoover's appointment comes a recurrence of the threat against the nation's future welfare that was felt fifteen years ago. The lumber and water-power interests have been chafing under the restraint that has held them back from a rapid road to fortune at the public's expense. They want the timber and latent power now kept from them in the National Parks and Reservations, and they want a Secretary of the Interior who will back their interests...
After post-graduate work both at the Graduate School here and at the University of Berlin, Mr. Woods was a master at Groton School for ten years. He then became a reporter for the New York Evening Sun; turned from that to lumber business in Mexico; and, before taking up his position as Deputy Police Commissioner in New York, was connected with the cotton converting business in Boston. In 1914 he was made Police Commissioner of New York City, holding this position until 1917. During the war he was on the staff of the committee on Public Information for foreign...
...after graduating from the University went to the University of Berlin for two semesters. On his return he became a master at Groton School where he taught for ten years. Between the years 1905 and 1907 he was a reporter on the "New York Evening Sun" and entered the lumber business in Mexico and later the cotton converting business in Boston...
...philosophy to a power of detachment, a course on Shakespeare to an understanding of human nature--in short, where study would strengthen them to meet the facts of life as they will have to be met day after day until death. A mind well disciplined and stripped of useless lumber should be the goal of a college education, and not an untrained intelligence staggering under a load or information never to be needed...