Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with grown-ups matured him rapidly and he soon became "a responsible little body . . . with a pretty conservative sense of values." Once an aunt told him he was full of tact. His reply: "Yes, I'm just chock full of tacks." He was always busy collecting stamps, building tree houses, modeling boats, stuffing birds, riding his pony. Recalls his mother...
...earlier last week: "The first duty of a bank is to be a safe repository for money. . . . It's just as if I put my car in a garage and when I came to get it, I found somebody else had borrowed it and run it into a tree." He thinks depositors should pay a small bank fee for service just as automobilists pay a garage...
...Travel Diary of a Philosopher Count Hermann Keyserling records that in Japanese brothels "an atmosphere of harmless cheerfulness prevails . . . just as, in Europe, among children round the Christmas tree...
Californians trust Professor Lipman ("Lippy" to students). He is one of the most learned men at Berkeley, and eminently practical. About ten years ago he became interested in curing iron deficiency in fruit trees by injecting certain liquids into the trunks. His technic has saved many a tree. Later he showed lumbermen how to poison trees destined for marine construction or telephone poles. The poisons repel molds, fungi, borers and other wood-destroying agents...
Last week, near the farmer's home, lumbermen brought down a tall pine tree. High in the branches they spied an eagle's nest. They came close to examine it. What they found made them cross themselves. There, surrounded by tatters of baby clothing, lay the skeleton of a 2-year-old child...