Word: pined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason why the town of Wellesley features neither bars nor movie houses is securely hidden from public criticism in the small, white head of one of the most unusual women ever to be connected with Wellesley College. She is Helen Temple Cooke, founder of Wellesley's junior sister college, Pine Mauor, and uncrowned queen of the town...
...sent by the parents of a young girl in her home town in Vermont to look after their ward while she went to school. Enrolling as a special student in Wellesley College, Miss Cooke was suddenly offered a chance to buy Dana Hall, a prep school attached to Pine Manor, before Dana folded and left her charge without an education...
...very long without going bankrupt. Even so, during the 1800's the Bishop's Palace was one of the show places of New England society. The deep window seats, spacious rooms and wide windows, the old staircase with its three original baluster patterns still intact, and the white pine mantelpiece of the dining room with its surrounding work of original old Dutch tiles, made the building one of the main points of interest for visitors to Cambridge...
From the Japanese Foreign Office to Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf went an airmailed gift: photographs of a sturdy pine tree which Gustaf planted in a Kyoto temple garden 25 years ago when he was Crown Prince...
...Augusta, Ga. this week, an invading army of engineers, builders and technicians jammed the city's hotels and spare rooms to the rafters. Across the Savannah River in South Carolina, the aluminum glint of hundreds of trailers winked among the pecan groves. Giant bulldozers ripped through slash pine and red clay, pushing a four-lane, 20-mile express highway from North Augusta to Ellenton (pop. 700), a town soon destined to disappear before the bulldozers' onrush...