Word: forest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...east coast of Africa opportunity to feast his visiting compatriots, and Consul Speiser made the most of it. In Tanga Herr Speiser prepared a huge banquet for the officers of the Karlsruhe, invited all Tanga's remaining German colonists, piled the long table with a little forest of slender Rhine wine bottles...
Notable among Midwestern schools for boys is Lake Forest Academy. Unlike its many neighboring institutions it is not a military school. Since 1858 it has seen Lake Forest, Ill. become Chicago's socialite suburb. As though embarrassed by surrounding opulence, L. F. A.'s old buildings have hidden themselves behind thick trees, gathered ivy about themselves, for L. F. A. is not a Rich School (plant value: $800,000). But no such embarrassment is suffered by big-boned, energetic Headmaster John Wayne Richards, called "Big Dick" by younger faculty members and his 207 boys when out of earshot...
Endurers. At Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Robert Black and Louis Reichers landed in their 13th day of endurance flying, hinted that rivals had tampered with their fuel. At St. Louis, Forest O'Brine and Dale ("Red") Jackson, former record holders, approached their 400th hour in their attempt to beat the Hunter brothers...
...Rapidan camp for a Friday-to-Monday week-end went the President and 17 guests. Discussed: municipal problems of Washington. It was hot. The President climbed a lookout tower to watch forest fires along the tindery blue ridge...
...added him to his camp crew as chief bookkeeper, surveyor, inventor, doctor, and general efficiency expert. And Johnny Inkslinger was very glad to meet Paul Bunyan, too, despite that hero's carelessness in mistaking the great scribe's supply of fresh-sharpened pencils for a pine forest and having them all chopped down. One of the very first reforms that Johnny Inkslinger proposed in Old Paul's camp economy was to diminish the loggers' rations and build some ships and send the surplus produce from Old Paul's great supply farms to European markets...