Word: forested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reveals that Dr. Frederic Martin Townsend, Glen Eden's founder-director, was graduated by the University of Michigan and the College of St. Francis Xavier, Manhattan. For a time he was director of the National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Md., near Washington. Perhaps that is why he affixed a "Glen" to the Poughkeepsie "Eden" which he founded in 1910 and moved to Stamford, Conn, in 1919. Before he founded Glen Eden he conducted parties of summer tourists to Europe. His excuse for circularizing ministers to drum up a clientele was that Glen Eden is to be a "Church...
Apart from telegraphy, Newcomb Carlton has two hobbies. As the largest employer of boys in the world (15,000 youths in forest green deliver telegrams for Western Union), he is interested in boys. Ship models, his other hobby, overflow his summer home at Wood's Hole, Mass. His only son, Winslow Carlton, is a Senior at Harvard. Since 1914 Mr. Carlton has been President of Western Union. Recently The Daily Princetonian pulled a publicity stunt. It telegraphed many a prominent man asking: If you had only 24 more hours to live, what would you do with the time? Prepaid...
Thus the planetesimal theory thought out by Chamberlin 30 years ago and elaborated with his Chicago University associate, Astronomer Forest Ray Moulton...
...bartenders catered to the miners: and the L-shaped Fritz & Russell bar of Portland, Ore. Seeking elite patronage, Fritz -& Russell used to advertise: "See the largest bar in the world, lined with the working giants of the woods, taking their glasses of beer and telling tales of the forest. See the jolly tar, fresh from his ship, spinning tales of the deep blue sea." These sights van'she 1 when Oregon went...
...house from the City of Berlin, an honorary degree from the University of Paris, a promise that his bust will be placed in the tower of Potsdam, an announcement by U.S. Zionists that land will be acquired near Jerusalem for the planting of a wood to be called Einstein Forest. Newsgatherers cornered Frau Einstein in the elevator of her home but could obtain little "color" for their stories. "Why? If you would only tell us why!" pleaded Frau Einstein. Lacking other Einstein comment, Berlin newspapers republished his one "joke" about relativity, viz.: "When you sit with a nice girl...