Word: forest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farlow Herbarium, returned to San Jose, Costa Rica's highland capital, after a month and half's sojourn in Guanacaste. With two, huge, native-made chests of cedar and bulky presses, all loaded with the 5000 specimens, the colectors felt repaid for their hours of horse-back travel and forest excursions on foot, where it was generally necessary to cut a way through tangled vegetation with a machete, the typical, sword-like knife of the New World tropics. But the physical hardships were almost negligible. Thanks to the unstinting hospitality of large land-owners, Harvard's representatives enjoyed many comforts...
...Paul Runyan, 21, assistant professional at the Forest Hill Club, Bloomfield, N. J.: the North & South Open at Pinehurst, N. C., beating Horton Smith, Tommy Armour, Johnny Farrell, Joe Turnesa...
When trees become crops, forest conservation will cease to be a problem. And in the February issue of Cellulose, a new trade magazine, the late Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson of Science Service gives the answer of the Woodman who was asked to spare-that-tree. "Sure," says Woodman, "I can spare them all, for I can grow wood quicker in weeds and shrubs. Trees are not the only means of producing cellulose...
...Washington & Lee, last week, people were getting used to a new president, Francis Pendleton Gaines, who has been chief executive of Wake Forest (N. C.) College for the last three years. President Gaines was likewise getting used to W. & L. and its 181-year traditions. Not far from his new house lie the bones of Henry ("Light Horse Harry") Lee, Princetonian, Revolutionist, and his heroic son Robert E. Lee (W. & L.'s eighth president), and his grandson George Washington Custis Lee (W. & L.'s ninth president...
...fake outdoor sets, particularly in the earlier sequences; the absurd theatricality of little, linking scenes that could with no more trouble have been made natural and valid; and the miscasting of Betty Compson who, with her worn, heavily cosmetized prettiness. in a hut in the middle of a forest looks little like a tough Russian girl camping out. Chester Morris, though highly histrionic, makes the part of Grischa believable, and the last sequences, especially the execution, are directed with realism. Best shot: the audience looking toward the firing squad through a black screen that is the bandage over the prisoner...