Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soybeans yields 30 gal. of oil and 1,600 lb. of meal. Industry takes the oil and the meal, uses one or both to make glue, paints, combs, candles, radios, buttons, axlegrease, paper size, explosives, linoleum, oilcloth, printer's ink, billiard balls, rubber substitutes, cigaret holders, Christmas tree ornaments...
Later he slips past mailed henchmen at a garden gate. A light appears at a balcony window. He hides behind a tree...
...stillness of the night the car, with its lighted trailer outlined against the dark foliage of trees, began to move. Almost imperceptibly, then faster, it rolled towards the lake below. Suddenly light shone brightly from the door of the trailer. The figure of a matronly woman appeared, sprang into the night. A tall, broad-shoulered man followed. Pell-mell down the dark hill they ran beside the rolling caravan. Then the woman jumped for the running board of the car to pull its brakes. She slipped, fell, lay groaning, while her distracted companion rushed to her side. The car rolled...
...humor was to be furnished by Esquire Cartoonist Paul Webb's "Mountain Boys," a group of grotesque, bearded, barefooted figures. In the current Esquire one of them is discovered by the side of a balky old car, gawking at an aged woman who is hanging from a nearby tree with a crank in her hand. Caption: "C'mon down an' finish crankin' 'er, Gran'maw-Shucks-I'll be late fer school...
Cambridge to Cambridge, Thus signalized was a unique relationship in the family tree of Education. Elite of the young colonists to settle Massachusetts in 1630 were Cantabrigians, who six years later determined to set up a "colledge in the Wilderness." Six members of the Massachusetts Great and General Court which on Oct. 28, 1636 set aside ?400 for that "schoale or colledge" were Cambridge men. From Cambridge came Harvard's first two Presidents, Nathaniel Eaton and Henry Dunster. The name of the site of the "schoale" was soon changed from Newetowne to Cambridge. Indeed, from Cambridge came John Harvard...