Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas originally gave title to the land in question to an illiterate young Southerner named Wilson Strickland who had migrated west, presumably had fought in the Texas revolution. The tract was hilly, bone-dry, good for nothing except a scrubby growth of pine, and Strickland never bothered with it. He left Montgomery County, vanished into mists of hearsay; some people said he had been shot to death. In 1847 a Portuguese freebooter and slave trader named Allen Vince sued him for a $200 debt, got a judgment against the land. But Vince never bothered with it either...
...plaintiff dug up the coffin in which her Wilson Strickland had been buried, took the rotted wood to court, tried to prove that it had come from a Mongomery County pine tree. Most amazing witness was Mrs. Anne Stuart Snow, a Strickland descendant from Lewisville, Ark., who testified that her family's Bible had been destroyed by fire in 1896 when she was eleven years old. She said she recalled 160 pictures and biographies in the Bible, described the photographs in detail, said that Wilson Strickland's picture had been torn out of the lower left-hand corner...
...worth of listed stocks in U.S. corporations, plus stock in 41 British-owned U.S. insurance companies (including Globe Indemnity and Royal Indemnity) estimated to be worth $180,000,000, plus an estimated $115,000,000 of unlisted securities in 46 privately owned U.S. corporations-including Delta & Pine Land Co., Dunlop Tire & Rubber, Clark Thread, Josiah Wedgewood & Sons (china), Yardley of London (cosmetics) Also assigned to RFC were the earnings of 41 U.S. branches of British insurance companies. Since total earnings of these investments have averaged about $36,000,000 a year-enough to amortize the loan at 3% interest...
Opening day was so hot (104°) that three contestants stripped to the waist in the middle of the round. But hotter than the weather was blond, sun-bronzed Jimmy Clark, a 20-year-old aircraft worker from Long Beach, Calif. He shuffled around Spokane's hilly, pine-fringed Indian Canyon golf course in 64 strokes, seven under par. Next day he shot 71 for a qualifying total...
...assaulting trucks drove right to the swamp. "Smoky Joe's" engineers quickly cut pine and scrub oak trees, in 25 minutes laid a corduroy road across the bog, swept into the astounded 39th (white) Infantry on the Ninth's southern flank. Again the engineers wove through and around the enemy lines, ran some of their truck-tanks clear to the division command post (but caught no generals; they had fled). Before the games ended, in horrid confusion, the 41st was credited with halting the Ninth Division's planned attack for at least a day, perhaps disrupting...