Word: oak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crown Prince, wearing a schoolboy blue serge uniform of tunic, short pants, and cap with brass cherry blossom, had just finished his elementary schooling, and celebrated by planting an oak tree on the grounds of the Peers' School. In a school-house built for his benefit next to the Palace grounds-to spare the prince a "dangerous" trip down the street-he had learned his lessons by rote and recited them, singsong fashion, with other young male aristocrats. He had also studied English with a British tutor, long resident in Japan, whose future under an American matriarchy remained...
...Oak Ridge (Tenn.) High School, which grew up by the light of the atom bomb, had a visit from atomic chemist Charles Coryell one day last fall. He told the students: "Unless the atom bomb is controlled for peace, one out of three persons in this auditorium will probably die of the effects of atomic energy." The Oak Ridge school kids, soberly shocked, organized a Youth Council on the Atomic Crisis (which they promptly nicknamed...
...editorial in the Oak Leaf, the school paper, explained what they were up to: "We do not want to die a useless death. We cannot be indifferent. We are alarmed that this terrible menace has not been generally recognized. . . . Our fathers [mostly scientists or workers in the A-bomb development] have told us that the atom bomb can wreck the world, and we believe them...
John's literary skill is at times no match for his filial feeling. According to John's earliest memories (Oak Park, Ill. at the turn of the century): "Papa liked vaudeville! Vaudeville liked Papa!-Papa designed most of Mama's dresses. Most of Mama's dresses were brown!" The first curtain came down with a rush when Wright tired of the role of Papa and walked out on his wife and six children "overnight-he didn't even say goodbye...
...Oak Ridge, Tenn...