Word: foresting
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...cannot read of this war in the wilderness, of battles fought by spectral shapes in a winter of perpetual night, without thinking that in our own day a new, haunted, legend-breeding region is being created-something that for our own time is the Dreadful Forest, as the Black Forest was a region of terror in the middle ages, or as the Swamp of the Great Dismal was in the days of the runaway slaves. This war of people freezing as they fall, of petrified corpses, of armies falling into lakes, of feeble sunlight touching the warriors...
...Chicago and Northwestern University merge.) Events soon showed that U. S. philanthropy is unpredictable. Last fortnight President Hutchins was obliged to announce one of the richest hauls in University of Chicago's history-a total of $8,000,000 in December. Major item: the $3,500,000 Lake Forest estate (including a top-rank, 18-hole golf course) of Adman Albert Davis Lasker...
...Russia's Berthas are adolescent sisters of the Big Berthas which Germany turned on Paris in 1918 from the St. Gobain Forest 74.5 miles away. Big Bertha was a 15-inch gun, relined to 8.26 inches...
...were again full of ominous signs: unusually large forces had been spotted across the Moselle from Luxembourg; a cold snap had frozen flooded areas in The Netherlands, making a mechanized offensive possible; Germans attacked three French outposts on the Rhine-Moselle front between the Warndt Forest and the Saar River, captured ten prisoners...
...club, careful to mix its shots, has produced such classics as Everyman, Twelfth Night, Dr. Faustus; such a novelty as W. S. Gilbert's Tom Cobb, or Fortune's Toy; such modern plays as Biography, High Tor, The Petrified Forest. Last week it tackled John Webster's difficult Elizabethan horror play, The Duchess of Malfi, proved itself braver than Broadway, which last produced the play in 1858. (Two seasons ago Orson Welles planned to do it, got cold feet...