Word: pine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students have never numbered more than a half dozen since the school was organized on a graduate basis in 1914. Instruction is offered by staff members in such divergent fields as Forest Entomology. Wild-life Management, and the coddling of pine seedlings in special growing conditions...
...race, third in his second, 27th in his third; why he found Olympic competition the least enjoyable of his career; how he trained by running nine miles to work and back in Medford, Mass; how before the Brockton Marathon in 1911 he breakfasted on 12 oranges, a bag of pine nuts and a pound of caramels; how to dodge traffic in a marathon; and how he kept going between marathons as printer, scoutmaster, schoolteacher, soldier...
...water, daily ate five meals and took two baths. Their trip cost $1,400. For brakes they used canes which were four inches shorter when they arrived than when they started. On smooth level roads they went as fast as 20 m.p.h. Their highest speed: 40 m.p.h. down Torrey Pine Hill, near San Diego...
...first few days at Warm Springs were partly spent in saying hello to old friends and catching up on his personal affairs, visiting his 2,800-acre farm on Pine Mountain and making out his Federal income tax.* On his first trip in his car he took Daughter-in-law Betsey, his personal secretary Miss Marguerite Le Hand and Ambassador Bullitt. To Columnist Walter Winchell, whose mind runs largely in one channel, the inference from such events was clear. Wrote Gossip Winchell...
Congress Week. Not all of the 22,000 delegates to the American Bowling Congress bowl at the same time. They arrive in installments, bowl, post scores and depart. Until bowling alleys-pine, shellacked seven times-have been used for a fortnight or more, experts find them unsatisfactory. Consequently, earliest events scheduled at the Congress are those for the least competent entrants. Last week's competitors were mostly "booster" teams, from in or near New York. Best individual score of the week was 690, posted by one Jim Reinsmith of Syracuse...