Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sing, poems of Archibald MacLeish, Diego Rivera's Portrait of America, The New Dealers, Farewell to Reform, Vols. 3, 4 & 5 of Mark Sullivan's Our Times, Yachts Under Sail, Tobacco Road, Obscure Destinies, Union Square, One More Spring, Rabble in Arms, Road to Nowhere, Christmas Tree in the Woods...
...University. Kitchen facilities are already installed there and with some remodeling of the interior to make a more cheerful atmosphere, it would be a suitable place for such a dining hall. Another solution is also possible if the expense of this in considered too great. The Big Tree swimming pool, idle and unused for many years, could be remodeled without too great an expenditure and made into a cafeteria for graduate students and commuters. Under such a system meals could be served for much less than those in the Houses, and students now eating around the Square could be assured...
...famous Lampoon elm will be but 25 feet high it was announced today. This statement came as a surprise as it was previously said by Lampooners that the tree would be 75 feet high. Upon investigation it was found that a tree 75 feet in height would completely hide the building from view...
Laytex is made from latex (rubber tree milk) from which proteins, sugars and water solubles are removed. Lengths of wire to be insulated are fed vertically through tanks containing the processed milk. At each immersion a film of milk adheres to the wire and dries, any excess falling back into the tank. Thus, by repeated dippings, the insulation is built around the conductor, the wire is accurately centred, and the wall thickness of the insulation is uniform...
...with the arrival in Boston of a "lyon." Devotees of the "big top" first suffered a setback when "Old Bet," the second elephant to reach this country, was shot by a Maine farmer because the manager's receipts from admissions were drawing money out of the Pine Tree State. But "Little Bet," soon to follow, had a hide "so thick no bullet could pierce it." Some young pranksters in Chepachet, Rhode Island, pumped her in the eye with a BB gun, costing their fathers...