Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spring was coming to Washington with a rush. Sap was rising. The Japanese cherry trees encircling the Tidal Basin in Potomac Park were about to burgeon. A soft greenish sentimentality was adrift in the air. Ulysses Simpson Grant III walked out of the long flat Navy building, sniffed the sweet air, drove to the Tidal Basin, examined the cherry tree buds with the expert eye of a lieutenant-colonel of engineers. Then, in his official capacity as Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, he predicted that these famed trees would blossom forth in all their...
...first Freshman Inter-Dormitory swimming match ever held in the history of Harvard sport was staged yesterday at the Big Tree Pool as the second division of the University meets and was attended with great success. After a series of extremely close events, Standish and Smith Halls ended with 23 points apiece; first place was awarded to the former, however, on the strength of its victory in the relay race. There will now be a brief cessation of activities to allow yesterday's first-year men and Monday's fraternity swimmers to rest up for the open University division, which...
...clock--Tree Exercises...
...motored, myself and two others, from St. Petersburg to Naples on the west coast, and then across to Miami and from there south to Lower Metacumbe. The section of the glades investigated was that opened by the new Tamiami Trail. The tree hummocks in this region are just like islands in an ocean, and rise in the midst of the grass-covered prairies, as the only spots where the Seminole Indians, who still inhabit this part of Florida, many make their homes in safety from the floods that cover the open prairies with two or three feet of water during...
...hard... A chief we knew insisted on having a motorcycle. The boy who was to run it for him knew how to start it, but little about how to guide or stop or care for it. They started off anad before they had run a hundred yards hit a tree, wrecking the machine beyond repair. When regrets were expressed he replied that it did not matter, since now everyone knew that he had had a motorcycle which would...