Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like unto sweet singing birds, perched on the highest branches of the Tree of Life, filling the air with songs of love and happiness- "Let your ideals be the Bouquets of Love and your conversations the white pearls of the Ocean of Love...
...Some of Author Elizabeth Madox Roberts' ancestors came from Virginia over "Boone's Trace," settled in Kentucky in 1803. There she lives, near Springfield, writes her books. Tall, light-haired, lissome, she is unmarried; her publishers do not know how old she is. Other books: Under the Tree (poetry), The Time of Man, My Heart and My Flesh, Jingling in the Wind...
...humidly hot in Sumatra; the intense sunlight encourages luxuriant plant life. One of the chief Sumatran products is, as all the world knows, rubber. South American rubber is garnered mainly from wild trees, carried through jungle paths. In the Far East and Middle East the business is much more highly organized. To handle the product roads have been built, heavy trucks imported; railroad tracks have been laid. The only primitive factor remaining is the labor-cheap labor that can be bought for about 30? a day. Loinclothed natives do most of the work. They slit the rubber tree...
...scattered crowd plunged the slalomers with a spiked pole in each hand. A slalom race is an obstacle race on skis; all the way down the course little red flags nailed to stakes on the white curve of the mountain pointed the racers to sudden curves around tree-stumps, past rocks, through the beds of hidden brooks. Slalomer Joseph Whyte of New Hampshire was too good for young Bryce Grayson-Bell of McGill, and the best Sander of Dartmouth could do was third. Pederson won the straight one-mile ski race for New Hampshire...
...Surrey, England, T. F. Halliburton willed that his ashes be scattered under the beech tree which had often spoiled his golf score...