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Word: poplar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that shook Adolf (Providence-Is-With-Me) Hitler's latest victim, Rumania, last weekend was not a seven or eight but an Intensity Nine lateral quake that caused the ground to shift back & forth like corn in a popper. "It was like being on top of a poplar tree ... in a high wind," cabled a reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Quake and Answer | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Billy Hull moonshined for awhile. Then, when he had his first $1,000, he bought a stand of fine poplars, logged them himself, snaked them down to the Obey River with a pair of steers. He became a timberman. From 1870 to 1900 millions of walnut and poplar logs went to the Nashville mills. Billy Hull, with his red tool box and little round cap without a bill, stayed with the lumber-rafting business long after Son Cord was a prominent politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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