Word: pining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago the U. S. military establishment was divided up on a new principle of four geographical "Armies," consisting of regular and national guard units. Each year one of these armies was to be assembled for maneuvers. Last week the first of these annual maneuvers opened at Pine Camp, near Watertown, N. Y., where five divisions of the First Army under Major General Dennis E. Nolan assembled for training and mock battle...
...Newport, N. H., twelve skiers jumped on pine needles instead of snow. One Jack Holden of Putney, Vt. made the best jump-31 feet...
...relics are in Siam and in Japan's great shrine at Mt. Hiei. Buddhists attach no miracle-working powers to them. When Bishop Masuyama arrived in San Francisco on the Taiyo Maru, he and the precious bonelet were escorted by numerous Buddhists to their drab, unimposing Temple at Pine and Octavia Streets. All the Buddhists meditated quietly. Then the Bishop took Buddha's bone to his nearby home where, because of its great value, he planned to keep it until a suitable new temple might be built...
...dabbling at a road between their separate camps, mile apart. At an abandoned CCCamp near Blaney, S. C. (pop. 200) some 265 veterans were slowly turning a fish pond into a swimming pool. At Kingstree, S. C., whose 3000 residents are about half Negro, 200 campers were pulling up pine trees preparatory to laying out a golf course...
Some thought it was engine failure. Others blamed it on lightning. The company said the pilot, trapped in a storm-swept Swiss valley, had flown through a cloud, crashed blindly into a mountainside. Whatever caused it, the Douglas airliner lay wrecked among the pine trees, its nine passengers and crew of four all dead...