Word: elms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uprooting trees can be expensive work. Moving an elm and, two lindens to "improve the landscape" before Kresge Dining Hall will cost the Business School an estimated...
Impatient Patients. By that time, Dr. Lincoln claimed to have an "entirely new system of medicine," and his fame was spreading far beyond the elm-lined streets of Medford. In Arkansas, Dr. Jacob S. Schirmer, graduate of a shut-down diploma mill and one-time follower of Cancer Quack William Koch, got the local franchise for the Lincoln treatment. Other "fellows" of the Lincoln Foundation set up shop in 22 states...
...July 2, 1775, when General Washington--decked out in "blue cost, buff under-dress, and rich epaulette on each shoulder"--marched down the road from Watertown. At this point, historians have gone to all extremes to affirm or deny that Washington accepted command from Artemus Ward under a certain elm (The Washington Elm). The most convincing account shows that because of poor weather and other complications, Washington could not have accepted command under this elm. Yet for years afterward, the tree was nursed and trimmed to a ripe old age of 202. Then in 1923, the poor, wretched elm, filled...
...quad--north on Elm Street--is the newest group of buildings, composed of large Colonial structures. The older, smaller, buildings on the Old Campus and along both sides of Elm Street more closely resemble old fashioned houses. In fact, many are reconverted houses, a factor which would account for their scattered locations and Victorian design...
...gingerbread Wallace house on Independence's elm-lined North Delaware Street, where Judge and Mrs. Harry Truman lived with her mother, little Margaret was brought up under fond, watchful eyes, in carefully guarded privacy. Bess and Harry were doting parents, partly because their only child was born to them late, when each was close to 40, partly because she was a delicate child thin and pale, with frequent deep circles under her eyes. There were other doting relatives: a cluster of uncles and aunts Mrs. David ("Grandmother") Wallace. Bess's mother, and redoubtable Grandmother ("Mama") Truman. Margaret admits...