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...period consists of delving in a heap of sand to unearth a collection of bones previously planted there by an instructor. Once in a while the prospective ditch-diggers go farther afield for their exploits than their little piles of sand. Last spring, for instance, they excavated a colonial cellar in Concord...
...than 135 different kinds of Wisconsin birds, likes to make jackknives, translates poetry from French, German, Norwegian and Hebrew, writes poetry himself. Besides a workmanlike landscape and a portrait of a worried raccoon, Farmer Sugden sent in six bottle paintings, which he made by patiently poking bits of colored sand into place in old whiskey bottles with the aid of a hatpin. Experts pronounced Sugden's sand paintings equal to the best of their kind produced by the Hopi Indians of the southwest U. S. Farmer Sugden was not at the show. A man of rural tastes, he farms...
...tradition of neroes in the well-bred English style disappeared about 1910, and foreign-born authors came into their own by introducing the realistic and socially-minded type of novel, he stated, until at present Saroyans, Sand-burgs, and Dos Passos equal in number and reputation the Longfellows, Hawthornes, and Emersons...
...laying of bricks will begin at the first floor level early next month. Sand-struck bricks, which are lighter in color than the surrounding buildings, will be used in this construction, as an attempt to match the color of the early colonial structures which formerly stood in the Yard. The new, shade is thought to be more like that of the older bricks...
Everywhere that there was a big camp going up, there was an Alexandria in the South. In Florida, 15,000 men were throwing up a tent-city at Camp Blanding (for 75,000 soldiers) on a flat stretch of white sand 48 miles by automobile from Jacksonville. Some 3,500 of the workmen poured into Starke (normal population: 1,480), eight miles from the camp. Starke's rents jumped from $19-25 to $50-$60. A waitress paid her boss $5 a week to sleep in a restaurant kitchen. Land around the camp which once sold...