Word: pined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alice Duer Miller calls her new chronicle Instruments of Darkness (Dodd, Mead). Harold Bindloss can fill you again with western ozone on Pine Creek Ranch (Stokes). If you like H. C. ("Slanguage") Witwer, you will like Roughly Speaking (Putnam...
...This amber is the fossilized resin of great pine trees which grew in northern Europe during the early Tertiary period. Naturally, insects just as at present were entangled and covered by the gum, large numbers of them being contained in it when it became fossilized. It is remarkable how excellently these insects are preserved in the amber. Some, of course, are disfigured from one cause or another but many are quite natural in appearance and can be fairly easily studied in the relatively clear material...
...fossil-bearing is amber occurs in several places, but is particularly abundant around the Baltic sea. Much of the land originally covered by the great pine forests has at present sunk into the sea, and lumps of the amber are constantly being cast up on the Baltic beaches. The lumps of amber are then sliced and polished so that the insects imbedded in it are brought as near to the surface as possible. Most of the fossil-bearing amber available for study," said Professor Brues, "is contained into the various museums of Prussia...
...Democrats, Blease and Reed (not counting Mr. Dill), voted against the Court. The entire Farmer-Labor party, Mr. Shipstead, was also against the Court. So were 14 Republicans?Borah (Idaho), Brookhart (Iowa), Fernald (Maine), Frazier (North Dakota), Harreld (Oklahoma), Johnson (California), LaFollette (Wisconsin), Moses (New Hampshire), Nye (North Dakota), Pine (Oklahoma), Robinson (Indiana), Schall (Minnesota), Watson (Indiana), Williams (Missouri...
...invasion of the Pine Tree State marks another increase in the importance of the indoor season. Members of the track team are taking part in two big indoor meets this week. It was also announced yesterday that the Crimson would be represented in the American Legion Games in Boston on February...