Word: spruced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foremost among the twelve loomed Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, still spruce at 67, who realized in 1917 the dream of Medieval Crusaders by capturing the Holy City of Jerusalem from Infidels who are still Infidels. Likewise among the twelve is Admiral Earl Jellicoe, trim and hearty at 68, who commanded the British Grand Fleet in the victorious though costly action at Jutland (1916) after which Ger mans did not again dispute the seas with Britons. The remaining Knights inducted, last week, were: General Sir Josceline Heneage Wodehouse, General Sir John Maxwell, Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Keogh, Admiral Sir Henry Bradwordine...
...market value, the Great War demand and the elimination of costly selling-methods gave the corporation great profits. But they were only incidental to his War efforts. Incidental also was the construction of 30 miles of railroad in Wisconsin. The road cost $12,000,000 and carried the precious spruce, logged in Wisconsin, to the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, which carried them to the airplane-factories which Mr. Ryan was supervising for the Government. That the 30 miles of track completed an important railroad-connection needed by the St. Paul was also an afterthought...
...spruce, dynamic Amir Amanullah of pugnacious and independent Afghanistan continued, last week, his triumphal visit in the British Isles (TIME, March 26). Featured were several new adventures designed to bring the Orient sovereign into close and striking contact with Occidental ideas and might...
...will be advertised as a rival of Yellowstone, Glacier, Yosemite. In place of naked peaks it raises up lofty, rolling domes fringed with balsam. Its bears are black instead of grizzled and the deer frisk white tails in place of the western black. For lodgepole pines and wind-torn spruce, are substituted every variety of tree and shrub that one would find in a trip from Georgia to the St. Lawrence-including flourishing chestnuts (now moribund from Pennsylvania north), holly, magnolia, the rare yellowwood, giant hemlocks, 30-ft. huckleberry bushes, acres of mountain laurel, rhododendrons with 18-inch trunks. Only...
There King Alexander I, spruce, compelling, received Statesman Velja Vukitchevitch. Together these good friends had just broken the long deadlock among Jugoslav political blocs (TIME, Feb. 20) which had seemed to defy the possibility that a cabinet-any cabinet-could be formed. The wily Vukitchevitch by hook & by crook and King Alexander by imperative royal command had again induced the Jugoslav "national minorities" to enter a coalition headed by the "Radical" (reactionary) Vukitchevitch, now the chief bulwark of the Throne...