Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JONES Oak Ridge...
...Washington, took her to a hospital, and hovered gently over her until she recovered. Then Will and Oveta resumed their newspaper life in Houston, working together at a roomy, jointly shared desk at home, with a direct line to the Post and a fine view of the oak trees in their yard...
There are actually two Memorial Rooms, an outer reception room, and the main room, which contains Harry Widener's 3,500 books. The main room, made in carved English oak, was panelled by a London firm and put together here. Dominating the room is a huge portrait of Widener, painted from a photograph by Gabrielle Ferrier...
Just before the halfway mark, 28-year-old Paul Goldsmith, a gas-station owner from Royal Oak, Mich., riding in second place, pulled up at the pits to refuel. In just 22 seconds he took on four gallons of gas, two quarts of oil, a cup of black coffee, and sped on again. On his medium-sized (350 lbs.) new American model a Harley-Davidson KRTT, which had such standard equipment as four-gear transmission and some unique features of its own (a foot shift, a hand clutch), Goldsmith finally lapped most of the field...
Rash Venture. In Santa Rosa, Calif., Store Executive Charles DeMore good-naturedly helped Boy Scout Troop 25 set up a camping scene exhibit in his display window as part of a citywide contest, spent the next two days in bed nursing a head-to-toe poison-oak rash, learned that the exhibit had won the first prize for, among other things, "realism...