Word: elm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Event. Where the Susquehanna River, coiling under the roots of an enormous elm tree, lips the edge of a lonely oatfield in Pennsylvania, two campers lay last week. The night was thick; a fog, which had crept like a huge grey beast out of the riverbed, sniffed at their fire; they waited for sleep...
Postmaster General Harry S. New announced the issuance of three stamps to commemorate a minor engagement fought in and around Lexington, Mass., about 150 years ago: the 1-c. stamp shows General Washington taking oath under a Cambridge elm; the 2-c. shows the battle of Lexington ; the 5-c. shows a Concord minuteman and the lines...
...concluded, "the old place has certainly changed. When I first started work at Harvard the Elm trees were so thick in the yard you couldn't make the grass grow, and the students used to take their girls walking in there. Now, I hear, they take an automobile and drive out to Revere Beach...
Another change in the appearance of the Yard was made yesterday, when the old Japanese elm tree which for nearly half a century has shaded the quadrangle behind Hollis, was moved across the Yard to a new location behind Widener Library. Work on the foundations of the two new dormitories which are to flank Holden Chapel made the shift necessary...
After the body had lain in state for several days, a requiem was held and the triple coffin of elm, cypress and lead was lowered into the crypt that had long been prepared...