Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ARCHITECTURAL FORUM published rough plans, which Franklin Roosevelt sketched and initialed last February and Architect Henry J. Toombs of Atlanta trued up, for a five-room, one-story ''dream house" on the President's lately purchased, 70-acre tract next to his mother's estate at Hyde Park. In his rendered perspective drawings, Architect Toombs respectfully subscribed himself only as an "associate" of Architect Roosevelt (unlicensed). Comparison of Mr. Roosevelt's sketches with Mr. Toombs's finished plans revealed a fairly high degree of competence in the amateur, only minor improvements by the professional...
Last week Dr. Sharp began to build a fourth LIFE Camp on a real frontier-a pocket of virgin forest only 68 miles from Manhattan. The site: a 1,000-acre tract in the Kittatinny Mountains of northern New Jersey. Part of an estate given to Lord Rutherford by King George III in pre-Revolutionary times, the tract was presented to LIFE Camps by anonymous donors. It abounds in deer, wild fruit and nuts, has a 40-acre lake (Mashi-pacong), is surrounded by 25,000 acres of State parks and forests. With stone and timber on the land...
Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, author of a popularly gruesome tract on reckless driving ("-And Sudden Death"), has collected tips for the benefit of heavy smokers who wish to reform. In step with a recent upsurge of articles on smoking, in the current issue of Scribner's, Mr. Furnas offers several anti-smoking aids for what they are worth. Samples: 1) wash out the mouth with a weak solution of silver nitrate which "makes a smoke taste as if it had been cured in sour milk"; 2) chew candied ginger, gentian, or camomile; 3) to occupy the hands smoke a prop...
...vicinity. Reasons: 1) Iodine cannot be absorbed by the body without chemical change. It combines with fatty acids, proteins, starches, or unites with another element and changes from a powerful, slow-acting cell poison to a less toxic iodide. 2) Iodine produces such intense irritation of the gastrointestinal tract that the stomach rejects even small amounts...
First the average newspaper reader is informed that Harvard owns 2300 acre tract of Woodland solely for the purpose of advancing knowledge of forestry and allied subjects; second, the layman may observe that Mr. Shepard, director of the Forest, an obscure unit dealing with what is almost a neglected science, has been the man the State has asked to step in and lead a committee to check possible conflagration in mid-state...