Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-seven years ago dusty, somnolent little Whitney, Tex. (pop. 2,000) became the recipient of a homely but extremely functional civic improvement: Druggist D. ("Doctor Dee") Scarborough installed a pine bench in the shade outside his store. The bench soon became as integral a part of Whitney's life as the Plaza in Santa Fe or Fountain Square in Cincinnati...
...story spread across sleepy Lake County like fire in a stand of slash pine. By nightfall all the county knew that Willie Padgett's 17-year-old wife had been raped by four Negroes; two of the suspects were already locked up in the county jail at Tavares...
...neighbors soon stopped worrying about young Albert Schweitzer, who began to grow up as straight and strong as an Alsatian pine. But his mother still had cause to weep-over his report cards. The first-rate education to which he was entitled as a parson's son, and the grandson of a minister and a schoolmaster, seemed at first to be a dubious investment. At home, Albert's brothers & sisters called him "the dreamer." At school, reading and writing came hard to him, and his nervous giggle earned him the nickname of Isaac (in Hebrew, "He laughs...
Locke, Murray Sanford of 31 Seekell Street, Providence, R. I.; Classical High, Providence. Lovett, John Richard Patrick of 96 Sayles Avenue, Pascoag, R. I.; Burrillville High, Harrisville, R. I. McFee. Arthur Storer of 93 Pine Street, Portland, Me.; Deering High, Portland. McMurtrie, Richard Lempereur of Bellevue Place, Gorham, N. H.; Mt. Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, Mass. Mello, Robert Charles of 32-43 32nd Street, Long Island City, N. Y.; Phillips Exter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Nebel, Harry Thomas of 129 Jamaica Avenue, West View, Pa.; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass...
...miles west of Lexington, is a rare gem among the bluegrass country's jeweled horse farms. The white, red-trimmed barns with dormer windows are quaint and comfortable looking on the outside, elegant and modern inside, with chrome handles on stall doors, chrome saddle racks, cork-brick floors and pine-paneled walls. Although 55 persons and 140 horses inhabit the farm, the place is so carefully kept that it gives an impression of never having been used. But Willow Run has nothing on Calumet's production line...