Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between world wars, when Douglas Bader was a cocky, teen-age R.A.F. cadet, the planes he flew were as perky as their pilot. Light wood, fabric and singing wire, they could bounce to a landing on some farmer's field as handily as they touched down on military runways. Flat-hatting across the countryside with his face in the slipstream, a man could navigate by eye and the nearest railroad track and fly by the seat of his pants...
...million acres and 9,000 employees, one-third of them trained professionally in forestry or related sciences.* More important, the Forest Service in recent years has radically changed its aims and methods. Less than 20 years ago its mission was to snuff out fires and preserve the noble woods intact as leafy museums. Nowadays the Forest Service runs a thriving business, selling prime wood to private lumbermen, reforesting cutover or burnt-out areas, farming the nation's trees on a longterm, big-business basis. In 1953 the Treasury banked $70 million in cash receipts from national forest sales...
Speaking in New York to a meeting of preparatory school and college educators, Smith also referred to "pretty clearly understood gradations on the social merry-go-round in preparatory schools and college." Saltonstall and Wood denied knowledge of any "clear" gradations. Bender said he knew of no "social merry-go-round" among schools...
...place like Harvard, which is old and famous, may appeal to more students than a younger school like Swarthmore," said Saltonstall, "but, the appeal is primarily intellectual." Wood said that a school's fame and prestige, however, is seldom undeserved, though it may sometimes be a false basis of comparison...
Bender, Saltonstall, and Wood did agree with Smith that the material advantages of a college must not be stressed at the expense of the scholar. "Over-concern with the non-intellectual may easily cause anti-intellectualism," said Saltonstall...