Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prints the photograph of Victoria, 12, and Mary Belle Spencer Jr., 14, unrepressed daughters of the crusading Chicago attorney who had Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure. According to their mother, Daughters Victoria and Mary Belle have never been to school, yet know everything. Once they threw their Christmas tree out the window...
...years that motherly monarch, Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, has driven in a gilded coach under the tree-lined streets of The Hague to open her Parliament. Last week for the first time in 33 of those years she did not have the comfortable figure of the Prince Consort, Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg, beside...
Michurin and his works are not well known to U. S. botanists. He is not listed in international botanical encyclopedias. But the Russians say he has developed a palatable blend of apple and cherry which is grown in Siberia, apricots that bloom on snow-covered trees just south of the Arctic Circle, a fruitless lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract when pressed, frost-resisting grapes that flourish in Moscow and the Ural uplands. Undoubtedly he has produced fruits that yield more abundantly, stand shipment better and grow farther north than the older varieties. To bring out ever new mutations...
...Banos, Calif., at the wheel of a plowing tractor, Henry Avilla nodded off to sleep. The tractor crawled on across the ranch yard, plowed a wide furrow through a mile of fields, ditches, roads and splintered fences, came to rest against a tree. There Henry Avilla awoke...
Under the University Museum, the same Department keeps a smaller collection consisting of 30 garter snakes, a boa constrictor, a copperhead, a dozen turtles, 10 tree frogs, a pair of chamma which is a type of Oriental fish, a newt, a crayfish, and a few frogs...