Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Named after the pyx used for the same purpose in the British mint. Pyxis, the Greek and Latin word for a box, derives from pyxos, the boxwood tree...
...Pendergast family tree of politics included three brothers: 1) "Big Tom," 2) James, boss of the First Ward, who died in 1911, 3) Michael, boss of the Tenth Ward, who died in 1920. Nephew James is a son of the late Michael, was successor to his father as ward boss before succeeding his Uncle Tom as boss of the Works...
Seven to seven, San Francisco's Art Commission stood deadlocked last week after months of bitter bickering. The question at issue was whether or not the city should authorize the erection of a 180-ft. stainless steel statue of St. Francis on Christmas Tree Point, across the city from famed Telegraph Hill. Leading the opposition were Banker Herbert Fleishhacker and Mrs. Adolph B. Spreckels; champions for the defense were Artist William Gaskin and a Mrs. Marie de Lavega Welch West. Words grew hotter, tempers frayed...
...Krakatau since the catastrophe has now been published in Leiden by W. M. Docters van Leeuwen and was reviewed last week in the British journal Nature. In 1886, one-celled water plants, ferns and mosses had already established themselves. In 1905 a visitor found a large cycad (palmlike tree). Now the islands are covered with vegetation including tall trees, luxuriant shrubbery and thick grasses, comprising 271 species. Dr. Docters van Leeuwen estimates that 41% of this new life was borne to the islands by wind, 28% by ocean currents, 25% by birds, the rest...
...president of the Cotton-Textile Institute he walked into the White House with the first NRA code ever drafted. His trade association experience later included the big textile strike of 1934, during which picketers outside his Manhattan office sang: "We will hang George Sloan to a sour apple tree." An apostle of NRA cooperation, he predicted "inflation, chaos" on its demise. Since his resignation from the Institute in 1935, he has made money as a selling agent for textile manufacturers, has spent more time at his summer place in swank Greenwich, Conn. Now 43, tall, dapper, greying, he is correctly...