Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patrol activity on the Moselle-Rhine front reached the level of Indian fighting, the French claiming success at tree-to-tree dodging...
...seated themselves on a long recitation bench. There Miss Campbell gave them a Christmas story to read in an Elson-Gray reader, sent them back to their seats with work books, in which they had to cross out lines that made no sense, paste appropriate objects on a Christmas tree...
...miles from the Indo-Chinese border, and thence drove inland toward the city of Nanning. This was their long-expected drive to cut the routes to China from French Indo-China and British Burma. It was a threat not only to China (which will be dry as a rootless tree if the routes are cut) but also to French and British and indirectly Dutch and U. S. interests in the Far East...
West Indian and South American animal life tends toward the quaint rather than the dangerous. The comical-looking tree porcupine, annoyed to find that he is standing on his tail, gravely tips himself over by pulling it out from underneath. Miniature anteaters cry when caught, curl up pathetically with face in paws, uncurl suddenly and nab your arm. Pea-size frogs croak like bullfrogs. One beetle is equipped with amber landing light. A bird sings sophisticated Gershwin melodies. Quanks, opossums, howler monkeys, capybara, sloths, tamarins, uropygi come in all sizes and shapes, display remarkably varied habits...
Author Sanderson and his wife (they were on their honeymoon) had no run-ins with larger animals. A jaguar watched from a tree as he cleaned his gun, fled when he said...