Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acquisition of the land at 15 Holyoke Street, lying between the Big Tree swimming pool and the vacant lot on the northwest corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, consolidates the University's holdings in that area. It is understood that an anonymous alumnus has offered to finance a new building, to serve as offices for the H. A. A. and as a medical center. Plans for a small structure were drawn up some time ago, but carrying out of the proposition was postponed when the advisability of constructing a larger unit resembling the new Yale Medical Center came under...
...sure this was a sequoia tree and not a sprout from Paul Bunyan's famous cornstalk whose top, when it was cut, whistled through the air for six weeks before it hit the ground...
...your issue of April 20, p. 17, under heading "Fall of Michigan," you state that when this tree crashed some of the pieces were hurled 500 yards. Some trees! Some crash-to hurl pieces of the tree more than a quarter of a mile...
...Engineers Brown, Quartermaster General De Witt and Congressman Will Wood (appropriations). The President ushered them into a room by themselves, told them they had to find ways & means of cutting Army costs. While they pondered snipping and trimming the military establishment, the President went outside, sat down under a tree, worked over the rough draft of the address he will give at Valley Forge on Memorial...
...sunny San Diego, police were confronted with a child of ten, strangled; a 17-year-old store clerk and photographer's model hanged from a tree in the Black Mountain woods; last fortnight, a Mrs. W. B. ("Dolly") Bibbens slashed and garroted to death in her city apartment; and last week a telephone operator was stabbed eleven times, fatally, near the Boy Scouts' headquarters. Since none had been criminally attacked, police searched for a female "fiend...