Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...lose" by suing in the D. C. Court of Appeals. If he loses, he may wait until the rule is again involved and sue in some other court. A series of individuals might sue again & again over the same rule. An epidemic in Federal territory could not be quarantined, forest fires on the public domain might not be fought, without public hearings and advance notice; and endless quagmires of litigation could follow...
...could easily be overlooked by a traveler, its latent wealth unsuspected. Texans say that if it lay in Europe it would be called the Desolate Plains, or something equally melodramatic, and travelers would shun it, just as the pleasant fir woods of Germany are known as the Black Forest, the abode of witches and evil spirits. But, being in Texas, it is irrigated, scraped over, dug into with an energetic, hopeful, optimistic curiosity. As a result the land produces oil, grapefruit, spinach, oranges, carrots, cantaloupes, tomatoes, turkeys, cattle, and is proudly called by the natives the garden spot...
There was no unequivocal answer. But the U. S. public knew that something was slowing down defense. What that some thing was was answered in scores of ways by columnists, reporters, editorial writers. But, by & large, the nation's interest was in the forest, not the trees. The average citizen knew that because of shillyshally, lack of compromise between capital & labor, failure to see what was ahead, France had ceased to exist, Poland was in chains, Britain had its back to the wall. What was wrong with U. S. defense...
They both had good English accents. They carried papers to prove that they were Dutch refugees from the Nazis, but they did not play the refugee game. They hid in a cave on a lonely stretch of coast, or slipped from dark barn to thick forest to empty warehouse, peeking, listening, taking notes. At night they crawled into lonely hedgerows, unpacked two small leather cases containing a wireless transmitter, and sent whatever they knew...
...Chicago met last September to elect a successor to the late Bishop George Craig Stewart, this struggle came into the open. Chicago traditionally has a High-Church bishop, though its richest parishes (St. Chrysostom's, St. James's, St. Paul's in Chicago; Holy Spirit, Lake Forest; Christ, Winnetka) are Low-Church. High-Church candidate was a handsome monk, the Right Rev. Spence Burton, Suffragan Bishop of Haiti. Low-Church candidate was a handsome rector, Dr. Dudley Scott Stark of St. Chrysostom's. In 17 ballots, neither could muster a majority. Nor could a middle-reader...