Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Tshekedi, backed by a corps of lawyers, argued his case most fluently, adding considerably to the brilliance of the scene by appearing throughout the trial in a pair of pink-striped pajamas from Bond Street. The hero of the Antarctic mopped his brow under the withered fig-tree and gave judgment: 1) Lewd Phineas was banished from Bechuanaland forever. 2) For daring to punish a white man, Chief Tshekedi was removed from the Bamangwato tribe, exiled from his tribal lands. Admiral Evans pronounced the verdict on Chief Tshekedi as sympathetically as possible...
...down, trailing flour like a comet's tail, until within 1,000 ft. of the ground, then jerk his 'chute open. His most famed jump occurred a year ago in California when he fell 16,000 ft., jerked his ripcord at 500 ft., landed in an orange tree. An English jumper beat that record for altitude (he dropped 17,250 ft.) but pulled his ripcord at 3,750 ft. No one had dropped so far and so close to earth as Spud Manning...
...National Shade Tree Conference is an annual gathering of men who raise and sell trees for landscape decoration, other men who study trees for pure science, still others who are professionally interested in national reforestation. Last week about 200 such men met at the New York Botanical Garden for their ninth conference. The tree which most occupied their dendrological talk was the stately American elm, which a blight has begun to attack. Unforgotten is the disease which wiped out practically every U. S. chestnut tree. Plant pathologists have found that elms are now being killed by a fungus, Graphium ulmi...
...SECOND SPRING-Janet Beith- Stokes ($2.50). Next to the Nobel Prize ($39,942) the Stokes $20,000 award, open to novelists of all nations, was the plumpest plum on the literary tree this year. When Publisher Stokes dangled this golden fruit before the world's nose, more than 600 writers took a bite at it. As in a newspaper fairy tale, the unanimous choice of the judges was No Second Spring, first published novel of an unknown 28-year-old English girl. Some readers may think the book a queer selection for these days, but many may find...
...takes only 15 years or so to store up the energy to bloom. Unblooming, it looks like an ordinary ground-palm: a rosette of long, pointed leaves spreading out from a central core. When its time comes it hastily pokes up a huge flowering stalk, thick as a tree trunk, from 15 to 40 ft. high, tops it with a huge cauliflower sprig with hundreds of little white or yellow tubular flowers. After holding this climax for a month, the tall stalk withers, the whole plant dies. Mexicans commonly intercept the climax by cutting out the stalk bud as soon...