Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wind-making machine to produce the proper breezes for wafting pollen in nut-tree groves...
Your article . . . reminded me of something Alex Bernal said when, as an eight-year-old neighbor, he helped pick the fruit in our yard. Forbidden to climb the trees, Alex had been struggling for hours with a long-handled rake .to get three persimmons hanging out of reach. Finally he said, "Mrs. Mackey, why couldn't you climb this tree...
...German machine gun chattered. Colonel Taylor, a company commander and an artillery captain stood on the road, scanning the tree-screened way to the bridge...
...last fortnight an old crone of the village, picking herbs in the jungle, got the shock of her life. Out of a tree leaped a wild, apelike figure. Its skin looked like dark leather; its body was covered with hard corns from tree-climbing; ringlets of kinky hair hung from its chest; fierce white teeth gleamed in its bearded face. To the woman's horror, the creature, which was dressed only in a torn loincloth, approached her with unmistakable mating gestures...
Miss Arleen Scheer of New York and Tech 5th Grade Theodore B. Edelstein were married in the Tree of Life Temple in New York. Both Mrs. Edelstein and Mrs. Behrman are continuing to live in New York...