Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shining through the branches of the pine trees a thousand generations...
...been 30 years. Driving through the jack-pine country of northern Wisconsin on his calls, Doc MacKinnon reflected: it had seemed much shorter than that. In the long country-doctor days and broken nights of George Elliott MacKinnon, now 60, he had brought hundreds -thousands-of children into life. Many a Finnish logger had come to his office in little (pop. 452) Prentice, Wis. to be patched up after a knife fight. There had been fevers, croups, contagions, the flu epidemic of 1919, when Doc was out on the drifted roads for eight subzero days & nights, .with a steaming horse...
...seven months, the U.S. was pledged to knock the chocks from under the Philip pine ship of state and send it sliding into the treacherous sea of independence. War had holed the uncompleted hull. Hurriedly the Administration in Washington planned a patching job. Last week, while the tools and blueprints were still being got together, it sent Indiana's slightly dented political knight-errant, Paul V. McNutt, off to Manila as High Com missioner, to straw-boss the work...
Bespectacled Governor Horace Hildreth, his Secretary of State and the seven members of his Governor's Council, who have the power to overrule him on almost any point, journeyed to the heavy pine forests north of Bangor for the Council's regular semimonthly meeting. By way of telling the world about Maine, they also had four days of deer and bear hunting, lobster eating, biscuit baking, rye drinking and poker playing...
Reviewing the marchers will be Rear Admiral James E. Pine, Superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy, Rear Admiral W. N. Derby, District Coast Guard Officer, Captain C. H. J. Keppler, Commanding Officer of the Harvard Naval Training Schools, and Deans Buck and Hanford for the University...