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Word: pined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When you mentioned Arizona's Senator Ashurst orating to the cacti in the Sept. 23 issue of TIME, it prompted us to inform you that Flagstaff, the honorable Senator's home town, has no cacti, being 7,000 feet elevation and in the heart of the largest pine forest in the world. Cacti such as the Senator would lecture to, as you state, do not grow at such an elevation. Flagstaff has neither cacti nor reptiles as one naturally expects in Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Accepting a challenge of John M. London '41, president of the Roosevelt Club here, the local Willkie group has scheduled several debates with Roosevelt supporters, including a debate between Langdon P. Marvin '41 and Thomas Matters '43 at Pine Manor next Wednesday. George Saxion '44 has been chosen chairman of the Freshman Willkie Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Majority of Yardlings Supports Willkie | 10/17/1940 | See Source »

...girls of Pine Manor Junior College will receive a special treat with their afternoon tea next Wednesday when they hear two of the leaders in the rival Harvard political organizations debate the campaign issues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARVIN, MATTERS WILL MEET ON PLATFORM AT PINE MANOR | 10/10/1940 | See Source »

...centre strip, soon to be hedged with small fir trees, divides the four lanes into two. No signboards mar the way or confuse the eye-its only borders are the misty, pine-edged hillsides of the Alleghenies. Ten smart Esso stations, finished Pennsylvania-Dutch fashion in native wood and stone, specialize in restroom toilet seats sterilized by ultraviolet ray after every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Glory Road | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Japan's No. 1 Christian, Toyohiko Kagawa, was released from the prison to which he was hustled last month. Christian Kagawa said he would spend the rest of his life tending tuberculous Japanese on pine-studded, golden-beached Toyoshima, one of the "dream islands" of Japan's Inland Sea. Louder than his words was the obvious inference that, at the behest of Japan's New Order in East Asia, he had abandoned militant Christianity for politically innocuous social service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Persecution in Japan | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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