Word: larch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...died away along most of Alaska's great rivers; the Tanana, the Yukon, the Porcupine, the Kuskokwim foamed ice-free through the hundreds of miles of evergreen wilderness. Even north of "the Circle" the ground had thawed. Hundreds of thousands of obliging salmon ran in Alaska's larch-green coastal waters. The Arctic ice pack would soon move sullenly offshore. The sun stayed in the skies at night, and green things burst into leaf and blossom with hothouse frenzy. Alaska's short, violent summer had begun...
...work consists merely of folding gauze into pads of various sizes. Anyone can learn it in a morning. The two neighborhood workrooms are located at 23 Church Street and 22 Larch Road...
Carr, who lives at 71 Larch Road in Cambridge, received his A.B. Degree from Harvard College in 1928. He prepared for Harvard at Cambridge Latin School, where he was goalie on the hockey team in 1923. At Harvard he played soccer for four years and was captain and star halfback of the varsity team of 1927. After his graduation from here, he studied at the Boston University Law School, from which he received his LL.B. Degree in 1932. He was appointed Freshman soccer coach at Harvard for the season of 1928. In 1929 he was appointed head coach of soccer...
When they moved him from London to his aunt's house in Hampshire, he knew he was dying, but still he ordered the secret kept. He was too proud to ask for sympathy. He lay in a room whose windows looked out on a grove of larch trees, with placid fields beyond. His wife stayed with him. Occasionally his thin lips curled back from his long, uneven teeth in a grimace of pain. Once a German airman flew over Oldharn Village and dropped a rack of bombs. One fell within 40 yards of where Chamberlain...