Word: pine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barrier of three logs was able to put to flight a group of 18 Italian tanks, but in general the tide was against them. Basque lines were forced back to the third ring of steel and concrete trenches defending Bilbao. A key to the city was pine-covered Mount Solluve which commands the entrance to Bilbao harbor. Planes, dropping the same incendiary bombs that destroyed Guernica (TIME, May 10), set fire to the forests, and a series of bloody bayonet charges cleared the rest of the Leftist strength off the mountaintop. Territory still controlled by the Bilbao government was only...
...Pine Bluff, Ark., police set a bloodhound and posse on the trail of three youths escaped from the Arkansas Boys Industrial School. Posing as members of the posse, the three passed through Jefferson Springs few days later, accompanied by the bloodhound...
...difference to International whether or not the Littlefork rose 26 feet in a few days. It did this spring because for about ten miles the Littlefork was a river of logs. Piled on its ice all winter by 600 lumberjacks were 11,000,000 feet of white and norway pine destined for the company's lumber mills at International Falls, near where the Littlefork enters the Rainy River. If flood waters washed the logs over the piles driven to impound them, they might shoot away from the mill down the Rainy, into Lake of the Woods; if the river...
Because of a pine tree fire just at game time, which threatened to destroy the stands filled with a B.U. Junior Class Day crowd, and because of the sloppiness of the play, it was 7:30 o'clock before the last batter was retired...
...Africa, took to building racing shells. His son Frederick Pocock built shells for Eton, Oxford, Cambridge. Another son, William, became the world's sculling champion, crew coach at Westminster School. Frederick Pocock's son 'George won the United Kingdom Handicap at 17, in a 26-lb. pine shell he had built himself. His daughter Lucy was women's sculling champion of England in 1910-11. In 1911, George Pocock and his brother Richard emigrated to the U. S., set themselves up in the shell-game at Vancouver, B. C. near a good supply of cedar...