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Word: tree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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City audiences may be fascinated by Monogram's conception of Manhattan. The elevateds, apparently by Lionel Toys, are particularly noteworthy. The dialogue is equally rickety. Sample line (by an urchin seeing his first Christmas tree): "It's the kind that grows out of the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...notes the pine tree growing in granite near Buford, Wyo.-in the early days of the Union Pacific, railroad firemen saw the struggling tree, kept it alive by emptying buckets of water on it as the trains passed. It retells the story of Hugh Glass, angriest man in U. S. history, who got so mad when his companions left him for dead that he chased them through 1,500 miles of wilderness to get even. Mauled by a grizzly, Glass was abandoned in South Dakota, crawled 100 miles to the nearest fort, set out for Montana for revenge before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Highway | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Last week the 458 women were brought to trial on an old tennis court. The judge sat under a shade tree and the ascetic defendants stood in the sun, dressed in chaste white robes. Chief Shembe gave his followers a good character. "We never have fights," he said, "not even quarrels." But the 458 female Nazareth Baptists were found guilty of manslaughter. Punishment was spread thin over the entire group. Sentence: for eleven leaders, six months in jail; for the others, three months with sentence suspended after a promise to behave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: 458 Delilahs | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Arab State of Iraq is as juicy with oil as an olive. So far it has hung on the British economic tree, but last week Britain, experienced as it is in handling olive branches, began to be afraid the Iraq olive would fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: YOUNG KING | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Attracted by the oozing sap, a winged bark louse flitted greedily around the tree. Alighting on the sticky stuff, he was soon stuck fast. A watchful spider darted toward the struggling louse, had almost reached him when the flow of sap engulfed both him and his quarry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Trapped | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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