Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rodman Gilder '40 escaped injury today when a wing of the glider he was piloting struck a tree near the take-off on North Sugarloaf to send the machine careening down the hill...
...Department of Agriculture has devotedly studied the mimicry of starlings, coaxing them to perform by placing nesting boxes outside his window. In Science last week he reported a prodigy. One starling, having imitated the long, low, monotonous call of a flicker, remembered the flicker's tattoo on a tree, gave a perfect rendition of it by drumming with its beak on the top of its box. "To my mind," observed the bemused scientist, "this is one of the most remarkable instances of mimicry, since it has demanded an entirely new [for a starling] method of mechanical sound production...
Bulow, in his first outstanding speech in nine years in the Senate, admitted that the U. S. might well forget neutrality to "track Hitler down and hang him to a sour apple tree." But he warned that this hunt would cost millions of lives, while Hitler might have died a natural death meanwhile...
...Neath the spreading chestnut tree...
Underneath the spreading chestnut tree...