Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evidence leading up to the time the victims were released at the police station. Thus the prosecution had to build its case on the recollections of the two survivors, Eugene F. Poulnot, head of the Florida Workers' Alliance, and Samuel R. Rogers, a onetime physician who now practices tree surgery...
...students must cut corners and tread on the grass, the Maintenance Department will put in a walk for them. During the past week workers have been putting in an asphalt path to run from Lehman Hall, under the "spreading beech tree," to intersect the walk entering the Yard from Massachusetts Avenue...
...hasty preparation. Throughout his Western tour Franklin Roosevelt was in close touch with Washington. Well-worn pigskin Presidential mail pouches went to and from the train with incessant regularity. While he stopped beside a road in Washington to watch a "high-rigger" lumberjack lop the top off a fir tree, another kind of high-rigger slung a wire across the single telephone wire along the road, handed the instrument to the President's Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. Spadework on last week's speech was presumably done in the State Department by specialists like Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis...
...over station WJJD. Said he, "Al Dunlap and I were in the same compartment on a train traveling from Stratford-on-Avon to London. Across the aisle sat a very thoughtful-looking Englishman, and in the seat opposite was an American. The American had been talking about the different trees he saw. 'You seem to be very well acquainted with timber,' said the Englishman. 'Yes, I was brought up among them,' replied the American. 'Ah, now that big tree over there' (the train had halted) 'what is that?' asked the Englishman...
When Richard Male's iron shot from the 7th tee hit an apple tree, it stuck in the crotch, 15 ft. from the ground. He conceded the hole. When Reynolds Smith's ball rolled into a hole made by one of Oregon's gophers, the United States Golf Association's general counsel searched his rule book, finally found a clause providing that a ball may be moved without penalty if it enters a hole made by a "burrowing animal " The U.S.G.A.'s President John U Jackson pronounced the galleries the biggest since Bobby Jones retired...