Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magazines. It also contains some authentic poetry. Thus, Sidney Lanier: Into the woods my Blaster went, clean forspent, forspent; Into the woods my Master went, forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to him, The little grey leaves were kind to him, The thorn-tree had a mind to him, When into the woods he came...
Married, Evangeline Davey, only daughter of Ohio's Tree Surgeon-Governor Martin Luther Davey; and Alexander Smith of Kent, Ohio; in the Governor's mansion at Columbus...
...carnauba palm is "the tree of life" to native Brazilians, who use its wood for cattle pens, its leaves to thatch huts, its fibre for baskets and fishing nets. Industrially, carnauba wax is used mainly in floor, shoe and auto polishes, has no substitute.* After the rainy season it forms on the succulent carnauba leaves, sealing up moisture for the arid months. Natives cut the leaves twice a year, dry them in the sun, beat them with clubs until the wax scales off in white, greasy flakes. Most prized is the golden wax taken from the eye of the palm...
...years before Tom Mooney went to jail, a farmer of Waterford, Conn. shot a golden eagle which had been raiding his chicken-run. The bird was only winged and the farmer took it to State Tree Warden Henry Fuller, who turned it over to Elmer Kenerson, New London's husky Superintendent of Parks. An animal-lover who knew something about veterinary science, Elmer Kenerson set the big bird's pinion, named it "Uncle Sam," built it a wooden cage 30 ft. high and 20 ft. wide around a tree in New London's wildish Riverside Park beside...
Fifth admonishes, "Honor thy father and mother." A young tree represents youth, its 613 leaves (in the form of the letter Yod which means God) the 613 good deeds a pious Jew must perform. In the background are the first words of the Kaddish, a prayer spoken daily for eleven months and annually thereafter for one's deceased parents...