Word: larch
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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...
...like friendly flesh; everything breathes and moves, lives and acts. Sample: "Flights of dead leaves were swept off by the rain. The woods were being stripped bare. Huge water-polished oaks emerged from the downpour with their gigantic black hands clenched in the rain. The muffled breath of the larch forests; the solemn chant of the fir-groves, whose dark corridors were stirred by the slightest wind; the hiccup of new springs gushing out amidst the pastures; the brooks licking the weeds with their greedy lapping tongues; the creaking of sick trees already bare and slowly cracking...
...Woolworth's Journal: "The larch is still standing...
...Russia ceded a southern portion of the island to Japan. That was part of the price paid by Russia for losing the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). Now Sakhalin, or Karafuto, is rich in alluvial gold and coal deposits. Its surface is covered by vast forests of larch and fir trees. Large tracts of land arc fit for pasturage and agriculture, and there is oil, as Oil Shah Harry F. Sinclair could testify. The climatic conditions are on the whole excellent, and are comparable to those obtaining in inland British Columbia. Moreover, the island has but a mere...