Word: firs
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...lost in antiquity. As a Christmas feature, however, it was mentioned first in a manuscript of the time of Luther, and was adopted first by the Germans. A German gentlewoman was visiting in England over Christmastide early in the last century, and part of her celebration was a little fir-tree lighted with candles. It was pretty, and next year Prince Albert had a Christmas tree for his wife, the queen at Windsor Castle; and after that its popularity was established in Britain. It was a German army that took, as well as Death, the Christmas tree to France. During...
...meeting under the auspices of the Students' Club of the Business School, to be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Room 100. Baker Library, W. W. Schupner, directing manager of the National American Wholesale Lumber Association, will talk on the wholesale distribution of Douglas fir in the United States...
...else knows the secret of constructing the wheels of the funeral car so that they will emit the traditional "mourning squeak." At the hubs a mechanism capable of emitting loud groans will be installed. Finally the hearse will be made of unvarnished cypress, oak, teakwood and fir, 12 feet high, 23½ feet long, the whole polished to glassy smoothness...
...burn efficiently anywhere." Hard by was a row of bottles with "white fish meal-for cattle," "impure glycerine-pure glycerine," "cod liver oil, certified grade," and other irrelevant mottoes. "Na, na!" said the gnarled Scot in charge, "we dinnae make sich stuff. Bit they ither folk employ oor mechines fir th' dryin' an' extracting...
...Yellowstone National Park is as big as Delaware and Rhode Island combined. The Yellowstone Park is 80% heavily forested with spruce, fir and several varieties of pine...