Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a preliminary estimate of damage could be made yesterday as the Arboretum staff, working under the direction of Superintendent Louis Victor Schmitt, cleared the paths and roadways, but Dr. Merrill said "several hundred trees are involved, including some of the oldest and rarest ones in the plantings...
...Colgate-Hoyt Pool, one of the oldest swimming plants, was completely de-roofed by a sudden mid-afternoon blast, but five freshmen present for physical examinations were unharmed...
...stride. And its Paul Bunyanesque stride is suitable to Peter B. Kyne's famed tale of lumberjacking and land grabbing in California's redwood forests. Charles Bickford, as head of a crooked gang of Eastern lumber barons, is determined to whittle the world's oldest stand of timber down to shingle slabs. Wayne Morris, an idealistic young landowner, is committed to preserving his mortgaged title to acreage that the gang needs to complete its shocking plan. The changing sympathies of Claire Trevor, a blonde croupière, help determine the outcome of the struggle...
...business with the same enthusiasm, somewhat deceptively because the impetuosity breaks down into shrewd caution whenever necessary. When anything important is at stake he chooses his words with astute grace, but he prefers the free extravagance of mixed metaphors. A favorite phrase: "Not a red dime." Youngest and oldest chief executive in the network business, he has come a long way from cigars. He now smokes cigarets...
...story shows Jerry, 20 years later, now head of the bank, long since dutifully married to a good, dull wife. Determined that his five children shall have the things he missed-a decent allowance and tolerant understanding-he successfully conceals his shock when they get drunk, when his oldest son confesses to having a mistress. With heroic effort he swallows his chagrin when his favorite daughter goes off to Hollywood, returns pregnant but unmarried. But when two of his children confess they are Reds...