Word: elm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancient history, traced the outlines of its prehistory. Ireland was not inhabited in Pleistocene times, as Britain and Europe were. Settlers arrived from Britain about 7000 B. C., bringing Stone Age implements some 10,000 of which the Harvardmen found. In geological strata of this period pollen grains of elm, alder, beech and oak and fossil shellfish reveal a warm climate. The Bronze Age began about 1800 B. C., the Iron Age not until 100 A. D. From then until the Anglo-Norman conquests (12th Century) the Irish lived in wicker huts, wooden houses or crannogs-lake dwellings. Still being...
That was enough politics for Frank Knox until last autumn, when, in the absence of famed Adman Albert Davis Lasker, he was called upon to make a speech to raise Republican funds at an Old Elm dinner. Frank Knox, ineloquent but convincing, raised $75,000. He was called upon to repeat the trick in Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati. Some of his listeners began telling each other that Frank Knox would make a good nominee in 1936, and that made a good story for reporters covering the affairs. In a national poll of young Republicans and old Republican county chairmen and city...
...metropolis of 45,000. Saratoga natives, accustomed to this change which occurs annually with the opening, for the month of August, of the oldest and most glamorous U. S. racetrack, did not allow themselves to become perturbed by it last week. Not so the sparrows which nest in the elm trees that shake like huge dark fans over Saratoga's Broadway. Disturbed by lights that burned all night, roused by bookmakers who on the street below kept up a shrill chatter until long after midnight, the birds chattered also, lapsed into nervous silence with the rest of the town...
...Perhaps my King would like to tell you something," he said. The eager newshawks were shooed out upon the lawn, found Prince & Princess Sukhodaya, the former King and Queen, under an English elm...
Scene. Flemington is the seat of Hunterdon County, on New Jersey's western border. A meticulously neat, elm-shaded town of nearly 3,000, it serves as a trading centre for a rich old agricultural community. About ten miles to the southeast is Sourland Mountain, where the child was kidnapped...