Word: larch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year's first running of the North American competition, won by Larch-mont's well-weathered Yachtsman Corny Shields (TIME, July 27), the boats were Quincy Adams Class sloops, measuring 17 ft. at the waterline. This year they were yachting's most carefully standardized boats: the Norway-built International Class sloops, whose 33-ft. specimens are alike as pumpkin seeds. In Larchmont's eight races, each crew sailed each of eight boats once...
Both speakers questioned the larch of individual, independent productivity of the present generation as evidenced by the fact that the new critics" rein the output of the twenties for subject matter...
Unlike most conifers the Metasequoia has its leaves arranged on exactly opposite sides of the stalk instead of alternating. The cones are small like those of the hemlock or larch...
Tigers & Timber. The northern mountains, covered with snow from September to March, are rugged and heavily forested with spruce, larch, birch, juniper, maple and walnut. In the forests lurk leopards wild boars, wolves and tigers. Still a menace to the northern peasants, tigers were so much a part of Korean life 30 years ago as to justify the Chinese sneer: "The Korean hunts the tiger one half of the year and the tiger hunts the Korean the other half...
...fire, which the Nazis set before they moved out, the cathedral's heavy larch roof and its covering of multicolored tiles collapsed into the nave. Since then, Viennese have donated 15 million schillings (about $570,000) to restore the cathedral, but St. Stephen's still needs 250,000 tiles to complete its new roof; by last week the church had money enough for only 40,000. In a tiny hut in St. Stephen's Square, donors could buy one tile for five schillings (about 19? and Theodor Cardinal Innitzer pleaded with Viennese to help clothe their "oldest...