Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comes a recurrence of the threat against the nation's future welfare that was felt fifteen years ago. The lumber and water-power interests have been chafing under the restraint that has held them back from a rapid road to fortune at the public's expense. They want the timber and latent power now kept from them in the National Parks and Reservations, and they want a Secretary of the Interior who will back their interests...
...made by the University track team during the past season, prospects for next year seem unusually good. Out of its three scheduled meets this spring the Crimson runners were successful in only one, that with Tech. In this contest the University hurdlers captured every place in both of the timber events and so enabled the Crimson to receive the large end of a 65 1-2 to 51 1-2 score. The hopes raised by the victory over the supposedly strong outfit of the Engineers were soon brought down, for on Saturday of that week the Eli combination administered...
...with is that which calls for the growing of home gardens. It is not too late even yet to start a bit of backyard cultivation that will bring good food at a cost to make that over-grown rascal, Costoliving, blush for shame and slink away into the tall timber. --Boston Traveler...
...They may pride themselves that though they are not trial breakers they are road-makers; but their greatest fault is that they are usually frightened off the straight and narrow path into tortuous and crooked detours or endless halts, but the growling of the big pussies in the tall timber. HAROLD M. FLEMING...