Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada's No. 3 party and has 28 seats (out of 245) in the House of Commons at Ottawa. Its national leader, Major James Coldwell, 58, is one of the most admired men in the House; by many politicians of all parties, he is regarded as prime-ministerial timber...
...from families whose incomes were above $5000, and 40 percent from an income bracket over $4000. Since there is no questioning the Committee's sincerity in choosing the most promising candidates, and even less validity in a claim that the lower income groups are incapable of producing top academic timber, it remains that a great mass of men who could benefit most from the National Scholarships never apply for them. These men lie in the income groupings below the $4000 level, where a scholarship, in most cases, would mean the difference between college and no college...
...When sudden spring floods washed out two of the longest temporary bridges north of Changsha last April, Director Tu put on three shifts of laborers, working day & night. The engineers managed to sink heavy loads of log piles, through unprecedentedly high water. Somehow, without modern diving equipment, timber superstructure had to be fastened to piles as much as 30 feet under water. Again the coolies' bitter strength saved the day. Local rivermen dove in, swam down for 80 seconds, drove spikes with hand hammers, a blow or two at each dive, until all were securely in place...
...himself. In a letter to 7,500 Republicans, National Chairman Carroll Reece accused the President of "intentional failure" to give Congress a comprehensive legislative program in his State of the Union Message. On Mutual's Meet the Press program, Jim Farley stated that Harry Truman was dead political timber. Oregon's Republican Senator Wayne Morse thought just the opposite. Said he: the President "is slugging right now, and he has the Republicans on the defensive...
...meet record in the 45-yard high hurdles at 5.6 trailed by a yard by Ted Sparrow, the Tufts athlete with whom Flint has been engaging in personal duels ever since prep school. Flint edged Sparrow in the Tufts-Northeastern- Harvard informal meet two weeks ago, but the Jumbo timber-topper reversed the process Saturday night...