Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yellowstone, Glacier, Yosemite. In place of naked peaks it raises up lofty, rolling domes fringed with balsam. Its bears are black instead of grizzled and the deer frisk white tails in place of the western black. For lodgepole pines and wind-torn spruce, are substituted every variety of tree and shrub that one would find in a trip from Georgia to the St. Lawrence-including flourishing chestnuts (now moribund from Pennsylvania north), holly, magnolia, the rare yellowwood, giant hemlocks, 30-ft. huckleberry bushes, acres of mountain laurel, rhododendrons with 18-inch trunks. Only lately have the Great Smokies been accurately...
...third annual University swimming meet will take place in the Big Tree Swimming Pool on Wednesday, April 4, at 3.30 o'clock. The meet will be held under the regulation collegiate rules and will include the following events: 100-yard four man relay, 200-yard free style, 50-yard for beginners, 200-yard breast stroke, 100-yard back stroke...
...representing both the Law School and the Business School will compete among others. In addition a fancy diving event will be held for which eight dives must be performed according to the collegiate point system. Entries for the meet may be left in the blue book in the Big Tree building. It was also announced that life saving classes would begin work with the regular instructor next Monday afternoon...
...Wednesday, April 4, the third annual swimming meet will be held in the Big Tree Swimming Pool at 3.30 o'clock. It is open to all members of the University, and will be conducted under the standard intercollegiate rules used in other meets in New England. Medals for winners will be given by the Harvard Athletic Association...
...that jungle-covered spot of northern South America, where Venezuela, British Guiana and Brazil touch each other angularly, is Mt. Roraima, famed among travelers and explorers. It is a huge wall of red rock that rises, like a ruddy tree trunk, 1,500 ft. sheer above the surrounding plateau and altogether some 8,500 ft. above sea level. It seems unscalable...