Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devil's Plum Tree in Los Angeles, Emil Jannings asked her to make a picture with him. She is married to Ralph Forbes, an English actor. She is 5 ft. 2 in. tall, was born on Christmas...
...McKee, financed by Oxford Paper Co., has worked for four years on new hybrid poplar trees which will mature rapidly, be suitable for paper manufacture. Aided by New York Botanical Garden experts, he has developed 101 hybrids from the 21 species of poplar. Fourteen of the hybrids are specially suited to papermaking by virtue of their precocity: in eight years they attain a growth which takes normal poplars 45 years to reach. A crop of this kind would allow a farmer eight years between harvests, would yield him a crop far more valuable than similar crops of wheat or corn...
...When trees become crops, forest conservation will cease to be a problem. And in the February issue of Cellulose, a new trade magazine, the late Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson of Science Service gives the answer of the Woodman who was asked to spare-that-tree. "Sure," says Woodman, "I can spare them all, for I can grow wood quicker in weeds and shrubs. Trees are not the only means of producing cellulose...
...clock--Tree Exercises...
With 20 points to its credit Delta Upsilon carried off the honors yesterday in the annual inter-fraternity swimming meet in the Big Tree Pool. Alpha Sigma Phi placed second with 18 points, Kappa Sigma followed with 16. The St. Paul's Catholic Club finished in fourth position with eight points, and Lambda Chi Alpha trailed with a score of one point...