Word: woodland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enjoyed himself in the role of country squire at Hyde Park. He gave out one formal statement, expressing his hopes that the new Wages & Hours law would work, and that employers doing intrastate business would comply with its spirit. For the rest he drove in his car through the woodland roads of his estate, watching his trees grow, and enjoyed the squirely duty of receiving visitors. No ordinary squire, he naturally had callers of no ordinary distinction...
First the average newspaper reader is informed that Harvard owns 2300 acre tract of Woodland solely for the purpose of advancing knowledge of forestry and allied subjects; second, the layman may observe that Mr. Shepard, director of the Forest, an obscure unit dealing with what is almost a neglected science, has been the man the State has asked to step in and lead a committee to check possible conflagration in mid-state...
...holiday last week in the woodland suburbs of Sofia, thousands of Bulgarians were appalled to see a bombing fleet of 50 planes appear over the distant capital and proceed to heave things overboard. There were no explosions. When startled trippers rushed home they found the bombers had showered only packages of leaflets. These brought such good news that all of Sofia promptly went on a spree of jubilation with dancing in the streets...
...Long Island, on the estate of Mrs. Evelyn Marshall Field, Weber was confronted with the side of a ravine upon which to lay out his forecourt. The ravine was filled in and now, upon what was once scraggly woodland, reposes the well-planned estate complete with shady trees and green shrubbery...
...match is a toss-up. Meanwhile undefeated Yardlings pit their strength against the Eli Freshmen in their concluding match of the season. HARVARD YALE Ross 118-pound Mallon Ach 126-pound Hanman Page 135-pound W. Bird Barnes 145-pound Mann Kidder 155-pound J. Bird Daughaday 165-pound Woodland Harkness 175-pound Clarke Glendinning Unlimited Pickett