Word: oak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Niagara Falls, George E. Stathakis, Buffalo baker, wrapped himself in a pneumatic mattress, got into a steel & oak barrel, slid over the Horseshoe Falls. Next day his body was recovered...
...wanted to see alert, big-voiced Comptroller Sproul, he might be found busy at the university's work on the oak-grown Berkeley campus, or among the broad vineyards at Kearney, or in the fat fields of Davis. As it was when he was comptroller, his task as president will be the administration of a $60,000,000 plant whose holdings include over 13,000 acres, whose annual income is $11,000,000 from state, federal and private sources?California's biggest cultural investment...
Curious people who wish to see so magnetic a personality had best not write for an appointment. In his book-littered bachelor quarters he piles the day's mail, unopened, on a great oak table. Over this a newspaper is spread on which the following day's mail goes. This unique filing system usually collapses after a few days; the mail is thrown in the wastebasket by a despairing housekeeper...
...Oak Vale, Miss., died "Uncle" Willis Pittman, 101, survived by 12 children, no grandchildren, 150 great-grandchildren, 75 great-great-grandchildren...
...Horatio, Ark., Fred Brown celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day he began to live in a large oak tree belonging to Tom Green. On coming to Horatio 25 years ago, he secured a room at the hotel, fixed a peculiar lock on the door, said in a German accent, "Just call me Fred Brown." On finding the landlord snooping in his room, Fred Brown removed his belongings, moved to a large tank near the railroad. Annoyed by curious townsfolk, Fred Brown had the ends of his tank sliced off for doors, hoisted the tank into Tom Green...