Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through a Roman-style aqueduct tunneled under the surrounding mountains, electric pumps began sluicing 4,500,000 cu. ft. of water per day. Nearly three years later, the level of the lake lowered some 60 feet, two crumbling skeleton frameworks lay exposed. Made of oak, pine and fir, covered with woolen cloth and sheathed outside with lead studded with bronze, the saucer-bottomed ships were 220 and 235 feet long. To facilitate navigation on the tiny lake, a pair of rudders could be fixed to either end of each barge. Lead piping indicated that fountains and gardens had once decorated...
...months. Family after family came in by mule and foot, over foot bridge and mountain trail, the man first, his arms full of quilt and baby, next a passel of children, then the woman, carrying the next to youngest. As a kerosene lamp flung shifting shadows on the plain pine walls, the congregation rejoiced, with prayers, a rousing sermon, hymn singing to Defendant McGehee's guitar...
This new acquisition, which will be placed in the lounge room of the Dillon Field House, was presented to Mr. Cunningham by Governor Barrows as a gift from the citizens of the Lone Pine state honor of Bill's 44th birthday last February...
...papermen were more immediately worried about pulp. Expanding their facilities, improving their technology, reaching into Southern pine forests for raw material, U. S. pulp manufacturers now have enough potential capacity to supply basic U. S. needs. But with Canada's mills already working at capacity to supply Empire needs, Britain may look to U. S. pulp mills to supply her Scandinavian and Finnish deficit. Speculators were quick to appreciate the fact. Jumping into the market the morning after Scandinavia's invasion, they bought shares in integrated paper companies, made market leaders out of such stocks as International, Union...
Amateur, U. S. Open, British Amateur, British Open. Last week, when America's Big Shots began marching through Georgia's pine-lined, Jones-designed National Golf Club course, there were four co-favorites in the field of 59: stoic Byron Nelson, U. S. Open champion; stolid Ralph Guldahl, two-time (1937-38) U. S. Open champion; happy-go-lucky Jimmy Demaret, winner of five of the twelve tournaments in the recently concluded winter circuit; and breezy Ben Hogan, winner of the last three winter tournaments with an unprecedented total of 34 under par for 216 holes. The quartet...