Word: thickets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter of 1916. Primarily a physician, a man of peace, he never strikes the professionally martial note. Once an artillery officer pointed out to him where the Roumanians were supposed to be, lent Dr. Carossa his field-glasses. "Turning a little screw, I suddenly discovered behind a juniper thicket a whole band of Roumanians digging themselves in; my first impulse was to tell the officer, but then I felt discouraged and said nothing." One of his duties was to help censor the men's letters to their families. One private's words, mystic, poetical, moved him very much. When...
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...thicket near Brentwood, L. I., workmen discovered a skeleton, identified it by a repeater watch as that of Henry Lot Norton, onetime waterworks official of Jamaica, who disappeared eight years ago, died of exposure in a thunder storm...