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Word: ginkgo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a few other trees now living, including the redwood of California and the ginkgo, are of such ancient origin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three That Grew In Dinosaur Age To Blossom Here | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...year. The Vanderlips were neighbors; the children went to the Vanderlips' progressive school. From the porch of the house in Scarborough Louise "could look off across the Hudson deep into orange hills." Honeysuckle smothered the rickety porch railing. There were white birches in the yard, a ginkgo tree by the windows. But misfortune followed so relentlessly it might have been planned. Once the Japanese butler at the Vanderlips' swimming pool asked her: "Why your little boy, he lie at bottom of pool so long for?" Rodney was two hours getting the water pumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After Indian Summer | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

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