Word: elm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes clear . . . that art in America is now a sturdy growth, like an elm tree which spreads its roots slowly but far, and eventually reaches great lasting solidity and height...
...contacts. Ill health and advancing years have crippled his frame but left his spirit youthful. He has been known to complain that he comes of long-lived Maine stock, and that his grandfather died at the age of ninety-two, not from sickness or natural causes, but because an elm tree fell upon him and crushed him. Professor Copeland at that age would also still be vigorous...
...because Montague started off with a birdie, using the rake as putter. With golf clubs, he almost neve scores above the 60s. His best score : 61, made at Palm Springs, where he lowered the course record every day for four days in a row. Two years ago Golfer Von Elm said he had played golf with Mysterious Montague for a month without seeing him score above...
...rope was tied around the top of the contraption, the other thrown over the limb of an elm and seized by the workers. They then proceeded to ease the machinery into the hole, inch by inch, foot by foot, fighting it all the way with audible grunts and groans...
...Harris Rosenbaum, who learned their trade when they were in Sheffield Scientific School and have plied it profitably since their graduations in 1907 and 1908. The Rosenbaum staff divides its time between New Haven and nearby Milford School which the brothers founded as a preparatory academy in 1916. Rival Elm City School is headed by Nathan Francis of the class of 1902, who was a Yale instructor until 1912 when the University asked him to choose between his jobs. Tutor Francis also owns a preparatory school at Cheshire, Conn. The University has been trying to undermine both schools by providing...