Word: elm
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...Saratoga Springs, N. Y. the elm trees are so huge that from the air the town (pop.: 13,000) looks like a dense forest. There what seemed like the most successful U. S. racing season in 20 years last week reached its climax-a month-long meet in which 600 of the best thoroughbreds in the U. S. will compete in 185 races for $350,000 in prizes...
...Professor William L. Phelps '87, said: "Daily life in English colleges is remarkably different from that in Yale. While breakfast abroad is the most sociable meal of the day, usually lasting two or three hours, at Yale it is a delirium. Why, the other morning I was walking along Elm street with an elderly lady, when we observed several students rushing towards the Old Campus after breakfast. 'Look at those poor, dear boys with their tongues hanging out,' sympathized the old lady. "Those aren't tongues, those are griddle cakes,' I informed her." --Yale Alumni Weekly...
...three essential qualities that a championship golfer must possess are incentive, enthusiasm, and coolness under pressure. The absence of one of these qualities in the make-up of a golfer is an inestimable handicap. Such hardened campaigners as Walter Hagen, George Von Elm, and Johnny Farrell appear to have lost their incentive or driving power; that certain spark of enthusiasm has been lacking in their play recently, and consequently, they have failed to finish among the leaders. On the other hand, many young players such as Munger, Goodman, Dunlap, Fischer, Somerville, and many others have been winning recent tournaments. These...
...thoroughly lacking in the proper attitude of mind or even the respect a wayfaring man pays to the Vice President of the U. S. Mr. Garner is a highly respectable, patriotic gentleman, having served his country 30 years, brilliantly, successfully and courageously, at Washington. A good old fashioned "elm club" should be the proper rebuke for a contemptible remark of this kind...
...landscape decoration, other men who study trees for pure science, still others who are professionally interested in national reforestation. Last week about 200 such men met at the New York Botanical Garden for their ninth conference. The tree which most occupied their dendrological talk was the stately American elm, which a blight has begun to attack. Unforgotten is the disease which wiped out practically every U. S. chestnut tree. Plant pathologists have found that elms are now being killed by a fungus, Graphium ulmi. The blight reached the U. S. in 1930 in some Carpathian elm logs shipped from...