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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosperous banker took a great deal of time to explain how he and his countrymen were prepared to get out and defend the country to the last tree and rock. "The women too," he added. "They'll go out there and shoot at the Germans. If anyone thinks they'll get through the Sudeten hills, they're very much mistaken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Juniors Find Czechs Prepared To Resist Invasion by Nazis | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...Tree surgeons raised many of the fallen elms, and expressed the belief that they might live, although some of the roots have been badly broken. They will be stayed up with wires for the next few years until they can reestablish themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Upperclassmen Register Today; Two Thirds to Freshmen Here as Hurricane Aftermath, Floods Isolate New England | 9/24/1938 | See Source »

PROVIDENCE, R. I., Sept. 22--(ILNC) The 80-mile hurricane that lashed all New England last night left Brown University's 174-year old campus a jumble of overturned tree giants ivy, and fallen roofs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GYM ROOF GONE WITH WIND AS BRUINS TAKE HEALTH EXAM | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...story which, although it is a throwback to silent cinema classics, has derived through them some of the heroic sweep and thunder of the West's lore of legendary foresters. Good shot: a falling redwood seen through a stationary camera sighting along the trunk of the tree as it levels with the lens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...Giles Wetherill's money is in peat-producing but his heart is in knife-collecting, designing and throwing. Wealthy sportsmen and maharajas have their hunting knives custom-made by him. He can pin a squirrel to a tree at 20 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAW MATERIALS: Bog Rot | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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