Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...folk gave sizable sums; poor farmers a few pennies; one old woman brought two geese. Laurence Clifton Jones. Missouri-born Negro who had been teaching in a small Mississippi school, had come to Piney Woods to found a Negro school. He had already taught a few people under a tree in the open, had finally obtained an old log cabin. With the promise of enough lumber for the first building, Founder Jones called a public meeting. Result: a subscription list headed by $50 and 40 acres of land from an aged ex-slave named Taylor, first contribution to the Piney...
...ancestors had plodded from Virginia over "Boone's Trace." Independent, self-contained, her speech and writing alike are full of a mannered dignity, a compound of books and Kentucky dialect. Before she settled down to be an important U. S. novelist she wrote a book of poems, Under the Tree, which won the Fiske Prize. When the Literary Guild chose A Buried Treasure for its November book Authoress Roberts hung up a figurative trophy: she was the first authoress (or author) to have three novels chosen by a book club. The others: The Time of Man (Book of the Month...
...earth in the old days, and that, as like as not, there will be giants again. He is willing to accept great men for the service they rendered the country; it matters as little how much Washington drank as what the real story is behind all that cherry tree discussion...
Fishermen agreed that the spars of a boat which could beat Bluenose were still in a tree, that the Thebaud was handicapped mainly by her size. But since even the Thebaud is too big to be efficient for fresh fishing, fishermen saw little sense in building a bigger challenger, little use in the Thebaud's challenging again...
...Angora cat which climbed a Manhattan tree last week for the first time in its life and then did not know how to get down caused police much trouble and cat-haters much glee...