Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that bore his body home to his native valleys were killed, lest the people learn of his death. As a result, Western archeologists hunted for them but have never known for sure where the Khan's bones rest. One story is that he was buried under a great tree and that picked warriors stood guard until a forest grew to hide the spot. Nevertheless, last week an Associated Press dispatch told with unhistorical assurance of a silver coffin from a shrine in Etshinhuro, Mongolia, which was carried with pomp and fire crackers through the Great Wall...
...African escarpment. Reared by Tarzan's mate, Maureen O'Sullivan, on antelope milk, the youngster at five looks like Johnny Weissmuller through the wrong end of an opera glass. He swims like a loon, rides turtles and elephants, fights lions singlehanded, lives just the life every tree-climbing young Tarzan-imitator yearns...
...Forbears of the present Stock Exchange were securities auctioneers who began trading in 1792 under a buttonwood tree at 68 Wall Street...
...decision to raze the Stock Exchange building to save taxes and to replace it with a large and spreading buttonwood tree* to save at least a symbol of the famous old market place was unanimously voted yesterday by the three governors who have not forfeited voting rights because of arrearage of dues...
...strong objection to the tree was that it offers no window from which to jump. As a compromise, the Committee on Arrangements has agreed to have a ladder handy...