Word: cypress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fertile land between the Tiber and the Alps. The modern world calls them Etrurians. They made strong bronze armour, neat wooden-soled shoes; jewelry, pottery and precious plate of a delicacy which has excited the curious admiration of artisans ever since. They worshipped strange gods in weird cypress groves and spoke a tongue which no one, except perhaps the scholar who drowned last week, has ever satisfactorily deciphered...
Former Dean Le Baron R. Briggs '75 paid glowing tribute to Percy D. Haughton '99, most famous of all Harvard football coaches, at the dedication this morning of the dignified memorial to the great mentor, set in cypress trees before the Soldiers Field locker building...
...hundred years ago, between 1808 and 1834, an immense, full-bodied man wandered through the wilds of this continent, from the cypress swamps of Florida to Labrador and west to the Rockies. He carried a gun and a sketchbook. His dog padded behind him on the trails...
...else knows the secret of constructing the wheels of the funeral car so that they will emit the traditional "mourning squeak." At the hubs a mechanism capable of emitting loud groans will be installed. Finally the hearse will be made of unvarnished cypress, oak, teakwood and fir, 12 feet high, 23½ feet long, the whole polished to glassy smoothness...
...sanctuary for wild life would be a primeval forest appearing almost exactly as it did when Columbus set foot on the North American continent . . . The areas most suitable for the location of a bird sanctuary are worthless for agricultural purposes. To attempt to cut up the Big Cypress Swamp, for instance, would be like turning the Yosemite into an onion garden or Yellowstone Park into a factory town." She advocated, as wardens of such a preserve, the Seminole Indians! "They have a deep sense of the sanctity of an obligation...