Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaves of Mr. Kottmiller's Cocoloba tree receive somewhat more mention than they really deserve (TIME, April 3). Certainly they are large when compared with most plants of temperate regions, but Cocoloba does not have the "world's biggest plant leaves" even though they may be "24 in. long...
Bolivia's economic objective was an outlet to the Paraguay River and thence to the Atlantic Ocean; little Paraguay's objectives were land and the tannin from the quebracho tree. To stop the war that has never been declared, three sets of peace makers including a neutral commission in Washington, a League of Nations observation commission and the ABCP group of neighbors (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru) had done nothing. When it was winning last December, Paraguay wanted no peace in the bog. Last week advancing Bolivia wanted no peace, suggested a 30-to 60-day armistice to bring...
Thundering out of the night, the plane brushed a rhubarb patch, caromed off a tree and a shed, crashed through the wall of Joseph Arisa's frame house. It burst like a flaming meteor into the Arisas' parlor. A moment before, the Arisas, their four children, their roomer, his brother and two guests had been playing cards. Joseph Arisa, his clothing ablaze, leaped through a window. The others scarcely had time to shriek before they were incinerated. With them died the plane's three occupants. (Joseph Arisa soon died in a hospital...
Rarer still but now unknown was a red Masdevallia orchid powdered with gold. Lager once found a single specimen of it growing high in a South American tree. He searched in vain for more nearby, later found some 500 mi. away. He shipped a lot to the coast where they somehow got sidetracked. In a seaport warehouse they lay until they were dead. No one has yet found any more gold-powdered red orchids like that...
...Dramatic club would not be the only organization benefited by the conversion of the Big Tree pool. Such a theatre as might be erected there might also serve for the Cercle Francais, the Classical Club, the Debating Council, and smaller gatherings to hear eminent lecturers. Rather than let the Big Tree pool sit idle and the Dramatic club and her sister institutions go begging, the University should make some arrangement whereby the Holyoke street structure could be used by the Dramatic club for a period at least long enough to warrant remodeling...