Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg and look across the valley at the slope of Little Round Top, you can see why General Longstreet thought it was hopeless to try to take that hill. Now the scene is quiet; the bronze generals stare sightlessly at each other in the forest of statues; the cannons are now cannons in a park. But at dawn on July 2, 1863, when General Longstreet looked across at the ridge occupied by General Meade, the woods were alive with Union soldiers, 339 Union cannons were in the field; and Little Round Top on the Union...
...company of strikers. He was Owen D. Young, retired lawyer and capitalist, former chairman of the board of General Electric Co., author of the Young Plan to reduce Germany's war reparations, onetime near-nominee for President of the U.S. Descendant of a long line of Mohawk Valley farmers, Owen D. (for nothing) Young is one of the biggest dairymen in New York State. His 2,000-acre farm at Van Hornesville, near Utica, produces some 33 cwt. of milk a day-which would be worth about $71 at the present average price...
...fast-multiplying "old American hillbilly type will send out his children to fill the vacancies in the ... Mississippi Valley and the corn belt, and eventually into New England itself." He "may not get as often into Who's Who but he certainly contributes more than his share to the Army and to those groups of Americans who accept 'American' value systems without question...
Many a curiously bent tree growing in the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region is no mere freak of nature. It is the handwork of long-dead Indians. In the July Scientific Monthly Geologist Raymond E. Janssen of Evanston, Ill. tells how he settled the puzzle of the crooked trees for which he could find no scientific explanation anywhere. He ran across a few historical references which indicated that "trees were sometimes bent by the Indians to mark trails through the forests." Several summers of study convinced Janssen that the deformed trees are surviving guideposts...
...there. Today a silent brave, threading his way past filling stations, could still follow a good existing tree-trail from the shore of Lake Michigan north of Chicago, inland through the center of Highland Park (pop. 14,476) to the site of an old Indian village in the Skokie Valley five miles away...