Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of a pine tree fire just at game time, which threatened to destroy the stands filled with a B.U. Junior Class Day crowd, and because of the sloppiness of the play, it was 7:30 o'clock before the last batter was retired...
...Yeah, I saw them, two of them, riding fast, and suddenly a tree Burp! (Pardon me, it's this stuff) loomed up from nowhere, smashed the car, and drew life's blood. Luckily they died outright, and they did not feel the blood trickle. The thought of the speeding, the sudden, final movements, and the dying, the passing . . . A cold slab, flesh cold, blood dried, eyes wide and staring dead. Have you ever...
...brother Richard emigrated to the U. S., set themselves up in the shell-game at Vancouver, B. C. near a good supply of cedar. In 1912, Coach Connibear discovered them, induced them, to move to the Washington campus. Coach Connibear died in 1917, when he fell from a plum tree, broke his neck. By that time Pocock shells and the Connibear system of rowing were becoming the U. S. standards...
...Crimson long distance running annals. Last year Robert S. Playfair '36, captain of the Cross Country team, met disaster in a 20-mile jaunt. After performing well for over half the race, the exhausted harrier unfortunately fell amok and deviated from the course, ended by fetching up against a tree...
...Here they counted for something. They were building a new country and a flag was raised every time "an American was about to be born." It was not until George and Alfred were out of high school and helping their father try to clear a farm of 5-ft. tree stumps that they got a taste of the backbreaking side of pioneer life, the poor future in it. After a year, having cleared one acre, they decided to try their luck prospecting in Alaska, sailed in their homemade sloop, enjoyed themselves but found no gold. When the U. S. entered...