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Word: tree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diving signal came. Prien began spinning his controls. Air roared from opened ballast tank vents, water rushed in to take its place. On the control board-called "the Christmas tree" because of its numerous red and green lights-lights flashed, showing Prien that the air induction valves, which carried air to the engine rooms, were closed and watertight. Down planed the Squalus. As the depth gauge showed nearly 50 ft., she began to level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Dead Dogfish | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...experiment." Since then he has never had time to take five years off to become a U. S. citizen. (But in 1928, Princeton classmates paid his passage to their 25th reunion, when Princeton gave him its first degree of Doctor of Philanthropy.) Sam Higginbottom began Allahabad College under a tree, taught husbandry, erosion control which he himself learned as he went along. To replace the sticks with which India's farmers scratched the soil, he produced a cheap, deep-cutting plow, still called the "Wah-wah plow" from the exclamations of surprise it causes. In spite of Hindu religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bundle, No Bundle | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Fairview, Ark. playful Otis Jones, 10, hid in a tree, mimicked a squirrel's chittering. Fourteen-year-old Brother Bruce, out for squirrels, fired at the sound, killed playful Otis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fall | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...tree to drop...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

From Tarzana, Calif, (named after his tree-swinging nature-man) Author Edgar Rice Burroughs issued an ultimatum to all wrestlers, boxers, strongmen, footballers calling themselves Tarzan: " 'Tarzan' is a copyrighted trademark and if these plug-uglies insist upon using it, I'm going to insist on the right to license them and stencil the copyright number on their chests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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