Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers who rushed in launches to the accident discovered its cause-a low-floating bough from some tree, 20 ft. long, 3 in. thick...
Died. Major Sir Henry O'Neal Dehane Segrave, 34, British Wartime airman, world's record automobile speedster; when his motorboat, Miss England II, after establishing a new water speed record of 98.76 m. p. h. on Lake Windermere, England, struck a submerged tree branch, overturned...
...spite of the rationalization and coldness that is used to puncture this brilliant bubble, there is a romance and even sentimentality about Class Day that is as real as the coldest facts. The Tree Oration with its beginning back in the glowing days of the "Rebelliad" is a vital part of the living Harvard tradition. The solemn planting of the ivy is the final mark of the Class of 1930 as it was of the classes of centuries before. About it all there is the mellow color that comes from the enriching touch...
...answer to "Where Do Famous Authors Do Their Writing?" has been made by responses varying from "Under an apple tree" to "On a pad hung over the kitchen sink." Cosmo Bamilton, whose new novel. "The Pleasure House," has just been published by Putnam's, admits bravely to a large fiat in a fine old Georgian house in "Pleadilly, London...
...Class Day the Tree Oration will be delivered to the members of the Senior Class while the alumni march to the Stadium where the Ivy Oration will be delivered. On Wednesday the Harvard-Yale baseball game will be held at Soldiers Field and on Thursday the degrees will be awarded...