Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outgrowth of the old pounding races (follow-the-leader on horseback), a Maryland institution started by daring young fox hunters in the 18th Century, the Maryland Hunt-four miles over 22 timber fences, some almost five feet high-is considered by most horsemen who have ridden both courses more difficult than the world-famed Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, England. Aintree's thorn hedges, through which a horse can brush without falling, are a pleasure, they say, compared to Maryland's rail fences, which are as stout and rigid as telegraph poles...
Because of its hazards, few horses under seven years old are entered in the Maryland Hunt. Last week the favorites were Mrs. Read Beard's ten-year-old Blockade and John Strawbridge's ten-year-old Coq Bruyere, the two top timber-toppers in the U. S. Blockade, chestnut son of famed Man 0' War, had clipped seven seconds off the course record last year when he won the race in 8 min., 44 sec. Coq Bruyere, a grey, had been beaten only once in six timber races last year...
...When Farmer X was a young fellow, a Yankee sawmill superintendent took a fancy to him, taught him to be a timber estimator. He bought a 200-acre farm, raised a family, slipped a little each year as the land got poorer. Now he philosophizes: "Life don't work like a job of work. You study out how to do a job and do it. But when it comes to living, they's not any way you can plan it and have it go according." He doesn't blame the Government though. "Our troubles," guesses Farmer...
...last summer's "purge" laughed off undergraduate toastmaster Brook Lee's intimation that Tydings may well be presidential timber...
...about 90% of Rumanian oil (annual production: about 53,300,000 barrels), farm products, wheat, timber, bauxite, chromium, copper and sulfate will henceforth be "sold" to Germany, thus going a long way toward ending the Reich's scarcity of food and raw materials...