Word: foresting
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...Forest Preservation was long ago brought forward as a movement essential to the nation's future economic welfare. Associations, bureaus and clubs of nature lovers all have joined in the attempt to preserve the woodland of the country for future generations by the adoption of scientific methods of lumbering which in the long run would prove to be economical. The unprejudiced observer, interested in these efforts, would be forced to admit that, although some local societies have done a great deal, their activities have not reached that national scope necessary for any long-time effect...
President Harding has designated this week as "Forest Protection Week", in an attempt to bring national attention to the bills now being prepared calling for supervision of the timber supply. These measures have slight chance of being passed, however, unless a really powerful sentiment is aroused throughout the country by those in favor of the movement...
Lack of steadiness in the finishes caused the University tennis team to go down to a 6-3 defeat at the hands of the West Side Tennis Club of Forest Hills in a match played Saturday on the latter's courts. All but three of the matches went to three sets and were nip and tuck throughout. Captain de Turenne opposed W. M. Washburn, ranking player and member of the Davis Cup team, but although he played on the offensive most of the time, finally lost 7-5, 6-8, 6-3. Fenno and Feibleman were the Crimson victors...
...Profundis", on the other hand was made to seem hollow and perfunctory by the hurried staccato delivery of the words. There was more theatricality than feeling in the interpretation. Rachmaninoff's "Cherubim Song", too, became a meaningless jumble of vocal effects, in which one could not see the forest for the trees...
...world famed naturalist, Ernest Thompson Seton, transforms the theatre into a forest for the moment by his moose calls and his tales of bear hunting. Craig Campbell, tenor, gives a few classical and popular ballads; Burt Gordon and Gene Ford contribute the familiar jackassieal singing lesson, and Ryan and Ryan perform a remarkable elog with shoes four feet long...