Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's Hygiene Department is growing at an alarming rate, and residents in nearby buildings may take warning. Latest of the annexations is two-thirds of Big Tree, former abode of the now financially embattled Dramatic Club...
...thirds anyway and perhaps all of "Big Tree" will shortly be occupied by the ever-increasing forces of the Department of Bygiene, Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor Hygiene revealed yesterday...
Doing a smart 38 m.p.h. with wide open throttle the craft was just clearing the trees on the edge of the field, when a disagreeable down draft went to work. The ship poised for a moment, then pancaked into a large tree some 15 or 20 feet off the ground...
...fairly good sized crowd of Exonians had turned out to see, the take-off. The group was shortly augmented by three-quarters of the town when the tree development occurred. Stevens thought that some of the crowd looked a little too much like souvenir hunters, so he hired a watchman to stand guard over his ship during the night...
...Cover has none of the dramatic fatalism of a movie test pilot. Cool and reliable, he was once an army flying instructor. When he was testing the DCi, the port engine almost died when the plane was only 50 ft. up. He calmly wheeled for a landing, missing a tree by feet. As the engine picked up he decided not to land, flew on for a successful test with the engine sputtering...