Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rubber plant from Brazil; a vanilla tree; a plant that curls up when you touch it; a flower that eats ants; sugar cane; and a monkey-puzzle tree--supposed to be the one tree that monkey's can't climb...
...village of Een (pop. 900) used to be just another quiet hamlet in the northern Netherlands. By last week Een had become a bustling mecca for 1,500 once desperate, now hopeful people. Bicycles were stacked up against a lilac tree in the village; cars from every Dutch province thronged the narrow main road. Rich or poor, they all came to be treated by Een's Wonderkapper (miracle barber), who grows hair on bald heads...
...either side, the four-lane Paseo was flanked by tree-shaded islands that separated it from one-way lanes beyond. Students studied on the islands' marble benches. On summer nights, romantic couples often had to wait their turn for bench space. Nearby stood statues of 19th Century Mexican heroes. When placed there in the '90s, they represented the most notable sons of the Mexican states, but time gradually rubbed out their fame...
Cummings and his tall, black-haired wife (whom Photographer Edward Steichen once called "the most beautiful model in New York") spend their winters in Patchen Place, a tree-lined Greenwich Village alley, and their summers at Silver Lake, N.H., where most of the poet's paintings are conceived. At 54 he is a wry, wiry Yankee with the gentle discursiveness and cracker-barrel wit of a farmer taking his ease at the store. Writing about his own mild, middle-of-the-road paintings in the current Art News, Cummings sideswiped most of his fellow artists, abstractionists and realists alike...
There was nothing really wrong with twelve-year-old Queens College. It had a tree-lined 52-acre campus across the East River from Manhattan, an able faculty of 225, some 3,000 students and no real worries about raising money. Since it was one of the four independent branches of the College of the City of New York,* it could count on handsome support from the taxpayers. Queens College's only real trouble was that for more than a year-ever since Dr. Paul Klapper resigned-it had not been able to find a president...