Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days Calvin Coolidge and his wife traveled through Vermont, "up the east side, across and down the west side" of the Green Mountains. They saw how last year's flood destruction had been repaired. They stayed a night at Calvin Coolidge's 275-acre farm at Plymouth Notch. Housekeeper Aurora Pearce was ready for them with a fried chicken dinner and Presidential applesauce. Calvin Coolidge inspected his house from cellar to roof tree; also the barn, the hay rick, the new silo...
...Vermont is a state that I love. I could not look upon the peaks of Ascutney, Whittier and Mansfield without being moved in a way that no other scene could move me. It was here that I first saw the light of day; here that I received my bride. Here my dead lie buried, pillowed among the everlasting hills. I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all, I love her because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who almost impoverished themselves for the love of others...
...Oklahoma: It was dark when the Smith special entered Oklahoma. Only a few wakeful members of the party saw, in the small hours of the morning, the thing burning in a black, empty field?a fiery cross...
...winds that languished over the Caribbean and Florida last week played a melancholy postlude to the doomsday wind-music of the week before. There were fervid, efficient rescue workers in Florida, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe and the smaller West Indian islands. They performed emergency miracles. But everywhere they looked they saw twisted wreckage, bruised crops and foliage, substance for a long, necessarily patient renascence. And in the lush Everglades of Florida were corpses in piles, other corpses floating in ooze, while greedy buzzards spiralled overhead...
When asked about the comparative facilities of the two universities, he replied. "My heart leaped with joy when I saw Widener Library, if knocks any-think we have into a cocked hat. Your Fogg Art Museum is also very good, but I do rather miss the concerts...