Word: timber
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Governor Adam McMullen, Nebraska: "Governor Ritchie is a man of presidential timber." (Governor McMullen is a Republican; Governor Ritchie, a Democrat...
...rush for the front platform of cograil-road car up Mt. Washington (6,293 ft. above sea level is the-summit). Fortunate ones spend time brushing away cinders, black flies, mosquitoes. The writer killed a very bloody mosquito 5,500 feet above sea level. Black flies penetrate far above timber line. Scientists may disagree, but I had "bites" to prove my case. Keep the red cover. It will aid newsstand sales. Red-white-blue cover would be unsatisfactory, I believe...
...thousand members of the American Society for Testing Materials (A.S.T.M.) went to French Lick, Ind., last week for their 25th annual convention. There, in haunts usually filled by politicians clandestinely trading their influences, testers frankly presented 80 reports and papers on various metals, cements, ceramics, paints, oils, petroleum products, timber, coal, coke, rubber, textiles...
...class by himself. Second and third should be a good fight between Briggs of Yale, Smith of Yale, and King and Flaksman of Harvard. The dope, however, points to the two Elis in second and third places. The High Hurdles we will have to concede to Yale's four timber toppers, Sheldon, Edwards. Campbell or Game. In the Low Hurdles, a radical prediction will be amade, Sherman of Yale should win, out I'am placing Tupper of Harvard second ahead of Edwards. Tupper never ran a Low Hurdles race before the Interclass Meet two weeks ago, and his showing against...
...yard run with Home and Swope, the speedy Green quarter miler. The Dartmouth aggregation is stronger this season than last and counts on victories in the hurdles, high jump 880 yard run, and the javelin. Wells, holder of the indoor intercollegiate hurdling championship, is expected to lead the timber toppers in both the high and low hurdling events. Maynard is conceded the advantage in the high jump, while Coach Hillman expects Smith to break the worsted in the halfmile race...