Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hopkins leaped out of an airplane to win a $50 bet. The problem was to collect. For George Hopkins landed, as the bet prescribed, on Devil's Tower. A lava blister, formed by an eruption 20,000,000 years ago, Devil's Tower is a gigantic rock stump rising 1,200 feet into the sky. Teddy Roosevelt made it the country's first national monument. Its weathered sides are fluted, nearly vertical, practically unscalable...
...them are well-to-do and influential. German-controlled investments in the country add up to about $1,500,000,000. The Argentine Government, under Acting President Ramon S. Castillo, has done its best to turn an austerely neutral face to the world. But in spite of several stump-toed Nazi plots (including one for German annexation of Patagonia, uncovered in 1939), the only formal action that Argentina has taken against the Nazis has been to order the Nazi Party dissolved. The Party simply took to cover behind German "cultural" and "welfare" organizations...
...Henry Stimson's record as buster of the sugar trust, successful prosecutor of the famed market manipulator, Charles W. Morse, T. R. called on New York to rally behind young "Harry" Stimson. He might as well have referred publicly to Charles Evans Hughes as "Spike." On the stump high-collared Henry Stimson spoke as he did in the courtroom. His argument was well-reasoned, factual, clear. When the time came to tear into Tammany mugs he politely "begged to differ with them." The result was inevitable: a Democratic landslide...
...poor-me-one, a tropical American relative of the whippoorwill, nests on the fractured stump of a growing tree, where its coloration and its cryptic posture make it look like a broken branch...
...getting on slowly but as the bone was burnt in one place, it would be a very long job. They are now talking of a skin-graft, so it sounds as though it is going to be saved after all. The doctor told Dad that her stump had healed very well and that it would be ready for an artificial leg within two months. Of course the other leg is the trouble, but he thought she would be able to walk in about a year's time. My brother hurt his/spine in some way which has caused his right...