Word: timber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bill hasn't been playing very much lately," was Van Ryn's explanation. But still the elders did not care. They decided that Van Ryn looked like a potential national champion as well as Davis Cup timber-and a modest champion, at that...
...sole track event in which the University team will be shut out is the 45-yard high hurdles. Caruthers of Cornell headed the timber-toppers in last year's classic, tying the triangular meet record of six seconds. Heasely, his teammate is not capable of equaling that performance, but is expected to finish a safe second. Alcorn, Green hurdler who captured second honors last year, is generally conceded the leader in this class. He has been clocked at 6 2-5 seconds in a recent time trial at Hanover in the 50 yard hurdles. Putnam will most probably finish third...
Dunster's first task was to get the first College building completed. Eaton, the "schoolmaster", just removed for his obvious unfitness to conduct a college, had got the frame erected--unfortunately of green timber which opened up in the first cold snap. Dunster got the floors and roof laid, partitions erected, the building finished, and furniture procured. He had the satisfaction of bringing all the students into residence, in September, 1642, and presiding at the first Commencement, according to the dignified rites of his mother university. This completion of the building was no small feat, for Dunster had not been...
...prisoners, Grischa had had enough of prison camp. True, he had heard that Russia was done for and the War near an end-it was blustery March of 1917-but enough was enough, and he yearned Eastward toward his wife and little girl. His monotonous duty was to pile timber in freight cars bound for the front. At the end of one carload he neatly constructed a cavity for himself, and that night slipped out of the bunk house. Under cover of his comrades' merrymaking he crunched across the snow to the wire enclosure; under cover of the wind...
...Furthermore, . . . the total Soviet exports of every sort for 1927-28 are slightly in excess of those for 1926-27. This was made possible by an increase in the exports of practically all exportable commodities other than grain, especially oil, timber and, in particular, of articles which thus far have been of secondary importance in the export trade of the Soviet Union...