Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This famed tree pest was accidentally introduced into the U. S. by James Lick, founder of the Lick observatory. Astronomer Lick had imported some fruit trees from China. The scale arrived with them, spread to become a great fruit tree menace. †Owned by Pacific Machinery Co., which is 5O%, owned by Food Machinery...
Humans may be raised to a par with tree-toads, crickets, and other animals that can foretell a storm without inspecting a barometer. This encouraging announcement came from the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, where C. F. Brooks, professor of Meteorological and director of the Observatory since 1931, and E. Monroe Harwood, Jr., research assistant, have been studying the indications given by clouds...
...technical execution he entrusts to no jury, awards on his own hook to a print of his own choosing for reasons of his own. He gave it last week to Thomas W. Nason of Reading, Mass. for a finicky line engraving of two hayricks, a barn, a dying oak tree...
...based on the assumption that Sir Francis Drake had left a huge and as yet undivided fortune. Some 27 billion dollars would be split as soon as costly litigation was concluded. Benefactors were divided into two groups: those who had the name of Drake somewhere in their family tree and those who were merely putting up money to help a "rightful heir," who would divvy up later...
Last summer Queen Astrid of the Belgians was killed when an automobile driven by her King slipped off a Swiss road, hurtled 95 ft. before it crashed into a tree (TIME, Sept. 9). That tragedy, said Physiologist Yandell Henderson of Yale last week, moved him to inquire into the behavior of drivers involved in such accidents. Many a driver explains: "The car went out of control." To Dr. Henderson it seemed rather that the motorist went out of control. When a driver is jounced off balance in his seat, a powerful reflex comes into play to restore his equilibrium...