Word: oak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oak Tennis Club, Larchmont, N. Y., William T. Tilden, II, tennis champion, engaged in a "circus" match, "did wizard tricks with his racquet and ball...
...like the streams of his own cheerful countryside. But his disarming simplicity is the vehicle of profound observation. His is the genius that can bring characters to life and make them three-dimensional, with their little prides and prejudices, their faults and virtues, their heads like solid English oak and their hearts of gold...
...Neolithic boat, 11x3 feet, hollowed out of an oak trunk, was found in marshes near Sittingbourne, Kent, England (on the route of the Canterbury pilgrims). It is at least 5000 years...
...wise old owl lived in an oak...
...retiring Moderator, William E. Barton of Oak Park, Ill., opened the subject of Church union. He began by rejecting overtures from the Episcopalians. Episcopalian bishops will not admit the validity of Congregational consecration or ordination of ministers, but they offer to reordain them if a merger can thereby be effected. Said Dr. Barton: "I would consider it equally a compliment if it were suggested to me that my children would appear to him [i.e., an Episcopalian bishop] more nearly legitimate if I would consent at this time to a supplemental marriage at the hands of a justice of the peace...