Word: groves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plot, it was declared, had been carefully hatched by Zaniboni and General Luigi Capello (famed anti-Fascist Freemason leader), who had motored to Rome from Parma some three days earlier. Before reaching Rome they are said to have halted near a thick pine grove in order that Zaniboni might receive last minute practice in the use of his rifle, which he fired for a long time at a target set up 100 yards distant in the woods...
Every Monday morning from Sept. 14 to the following May 14, I take up current events before the preachers' meeting at Ocean Grove, N. J. My address - running comment - is followed by general discussion. TIME keeps me in close touch with all current affairs. It saves me much time and puts pep into what I say. So TIME is for me a time-saver-an illuminator-a flashing herald-always full, fresh and spicy...
Meanwhile the body of the ship, containing 23 men, had plunged from the crash 1,000 feet higher into the air, and then, with a sickening, sliding motion it had started to earth while gas-tanks, oil-cans, girders crashed about. It landed near a grove with 22 survivors. At some point in the maelstrom, Lieut. Sheppard was thrown from the hulk. His body was found a mile from the main wreckage, a bit of guy-rope in one hand, a bit of rigging in the other...
...start a buckeye is to plant the seed. It is a difficult tree to transplant. And if the Ohio Society of New York wishes?and it is a praiseworthy wish?to plant a grove of buckeyes on Long Island, I shall be glad this fall, to send them a peck of buckeye seeds?buckeyes we call them...
...Chinese-American fruit expert, credited with having originated two of the best-known varieties of grapefruit and oranges in the world; in Deland, Fla. Aged 12, he came to the U. S., was adopted by two wealthy Baptist women, was converted. He inherited from these women an orange grove in Florida, began his experiments. He worked in seclusion, held prayers in his private chapel. Others benefited by his researches and Gong died a poor man. Said Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: "The orange growers of the United States should build a monument to his memory, and doubtless they will...