Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead elm tree removed from the yard a short time ago was Harvard's latest concession to a disease which threatens to deracinate all of New England's staeliest shade trees. Since its discovery in Massachusetts in 1941, Dutch Elm Disease has killed a recorded 50,000 of the state's American elms, and probably as many more died unnoticed or unrecorded...
...Leaf. In Madison, Wis., the State Bureau of Personnel offers a $325-a-month summer job: "Shade Tree Inspector...
Critics have tried to proselytize Orwell's shade, I think, because there is not much else they can do with him. His work does not lend itself to criticism. His prose style is better read than read about; there are few meanings in his novels beyond what he consciously put there; and aware of his limitations, he seldom ventured beyond them...
...back to the T'ang Dynasty's General Li. He was scorned for his meticulous style by a Literary Man, who said: "When he painted a snake he could not refrain from adding feet." Perhaps in reply Ch'iu Ying painted his Intellectual Conversation in the Shade of T'ung Trees, which measures nine feet tall. Done in a freer, bolder style, it is a resounding answer to his critics and a masterpiece of brush technique. ¶ Shen Chou, who inherited the Literary Man's Painting tradition, played the role of rustic philosopher, ignoring...
...greatest victory. He died confident that his end was the one ordained for him by his very personal Old Testament God, and he left for posterity perhaps the most moving last words ever spoken by a hero: "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees...