Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the belief was further discredited when, as a result of questioning the parents of 582 malformed children born in Philadelphia. Drs. Douglas Power Murphy & Milton Mazer concluded that the most numerous spoilage of the family tree does not occur among firstborn. By means of analytical charts published in the American Medical Association Journal those Philadelphia physicians demonstrated that in large families the eldest four are usually the soundest. The fifth and sixth are occasionally malformed. Women who have been pregnant nine or more times produce three times as many errors as does the average woman...
...head to look at the road map. The right wheels of the car slipped through one of the 18-ft. openings in the concrete curb. For some 95 feet it careened along, the right wheels at times three feet lower than the left. Then it struck a young pear tree, swerved at right angles. The Queen and the chauffeur were thrown clear. The car rolled down the bank, caromed off another tree and into the shallow water of the lake...
Engaged. Evangeline Davey, 24, only daughter of Ohio's Tree Surgeon-Governor Martin Luther Davey; and Alexander Smith, 25, of Kent, Ohio...
...petty North Indian rajah, clan-named Gautama, Buddha was born near the middle of the Sixth Century B. C., left home at 29, sat six years under a Bo tree, died...
...hire a business manager to care for it. Not everything in it is the smallest in the world because it includes such miscellany as the eardrum of a whale, a barnacle from the battleship Oregon, a horny oyster, a pair of musical balls from China, an opalized gingko tree. But notable among the costly peeweeana are the following...