Word: groves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HELEN GROVE MEYER Hamden, Conn...
Among the standouts were three Alpine landscapes by Bruegel, who turned inches of paper into miles of thousands of mountainside by the application of thousands of tiny ink lines sensitively stitched and pyramided together. Claude Lorrain's Sermon on the Mount created a hilltop grove, shepherds and their flock, a wide and crowded harbor and a distant town, all with a little ink and broad watery washes. Peter Paul Rubens' delicately tinted watercolor of a farmyard was as tender and vivid as April grass. Thomas Gainsborough's charcoal sketches showed that he could read the face...
This week James Van Fleet, slated for retirement on March 31, was getting ready to go home to his small orange grove in Florida.* Said U.N. Commander Mark Clark: "General Van Fleet has earned the gratitude of his country and of the free world...
While waiting for that happy day Pleasant Grove's own school board went on with its regular work. For one thing it chose a site for a new high school, and in the process began condemning the land of several prominent property owners. The property owners promptly decided that the only way to stop this sort of thing was to bring the annexation issue to a head. They began circulating petitions calling for a special election, hired a hillbilly band to rally support. When election day came, a few interested citizens dutifully trooped to the polls. By a slim...
...leading abolitionists. Meanwhile Superintendent Dale Douglas ("I'm a chief without Indians!") began appealing to the county superintendent for help, and was told that the county could only take over small communities with 125 students or less At week's end the citizens of Pleasant Grove had but one course left: to call another election and vote their school district back into existence...