Word: sap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried out hundreds of ways to color and preserve them. Finally, they perfected a solution that would keep them fresh for weeks, even in the warmest living room. Their secret: a formula of water and plant foods which, when sealed in a metallic tree base, acts as an artificial sap. Using that process, Roy and Ede Halvorson have since built up the biggest processed Christmas-tree business in the world...
...friend, Trudeau founded the. U.S.'s first TB sanatorium (first patients: two consumptive factory girls). Trudeau shunted patients out into the biting mountain air, made them sleep, bundled snugly, under the sky. They drove through the Adirondacks, picked wild strawberries and raided maple trees in late winter for sap. Prodded by desperation and Trudeau's apparent miracle-working (of 12,500 patients cared for since 1885, more than 5,000 are still alive today), TB sufferers swarmed to Saranac Lake. The sanatorium grew until it had 52 buildings and a staff...
...Verbum Sap. In Martinsburg, W. Va., Farm Machinery Dealer Ray Albright put an ad in the Journal: ALL THIEVES please quit breaking into our store. We never leave any money around the place after closing hours...
...anti-intellectual forces of Cambridge have bumbled onto a devise that could sap the will to resist and the fighting edge of Harvard's academic flower. A signal light now stops traffic at the corner of Massachusetts and Holyoke. The calculating city council, which has its own supply of scouts, placed this light at the spot most likely to cause trouble for Harvard. With Hayes-Bickford's emergence as a favorite of young intellectuals taking a leisurely break between rising and lunch time, this corner has been essential for the physical health of Harvard. Dodging the vigilant cabs, cars...
...EISA Estn. Div. Chmps; 13-14, Williams Carnival; 21, Brattleboro Invitation Jump; 28, Harvard-Bromley Slalom, Manchester, Vt.; Mar. 6-7, EISA Senior Div. Chmps, Lyndonville; 14, USEASA Men's Giant, Slalom, Stowe; 20-21, Webber Cup Downhill, Pinkham Notch; 20-21, Widener Memorial, Waterville Valley; 28, Sap Run Slalom, Jackson, N.H.; April 5, Harvard-Yale, Princeton Slalom, Mt. Washington; 17-18, Harvard-Dartmouth Slalom, Mt. Washington...