Word: pined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William J. Fulton, publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick's New York correspondent who "investigated Harvard" earlier this spring, noted with alarm that the college in the "green, pine-dotted hill" was flying the United Nations flag "with its spider web map of the world on a blue background...
...your magazine is [editorially] slanted. I won't argue that, but your April 30 cover story on MacArthur is the epitome in reporting and intelligent analysis. Your presentation of the selfish political angles as well as the sound and honest elements of the whole affair is like a pine tree in a cotton patch . . . You have become the weight of balance on the scale of sensible opinion...
Once upon a time, as the Senior president explained, Mr. Hunnewell gave a silver pine to Mr. Durant. Wellesley was two years old at the time, and hard up for traditions; and it seemed almost inevitable that the College would still be celebrating Tree Day 74 years later--last Saturday, in fact. Tree Day, as the Senior president explained, is "one of Wellesley College's oldest and most colorful traditions." Most of the two thousand onlookers weren't too sure what was going on; but it was quite enough that it had been going on for one hell...
...save it, townsmen, under the leadership of Architect Albert Chauvel, felled pine trees from a nearby forest, dragged them to the cathedral to reinforce crumbling columns, collected bricks from wrecked houses to make emergency walls...
...partnership with Ernest M. Wheeler, who put up the money, she left Wellesley to take over Dana Hall, and has since expanded that institution to include Pine Manor and Tenacre, a school for children from...