Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprising number of things, from man's moods to the size of the elephant population, show up-& -down patterns that are almost as regular as the rise & fall of the tide. Some are verified by observations covering many centuries (e.g., by means of tree rings and silt deposits in lakes, rainfall cycles have been traced back thousands of years). Other cycle records as yet are little more than preliminary observations. But despite distortions by war and catastrophe, they run remarkably true to form. Samples...
...Published a first novel (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn-Harper...
Notions. In El Paso, Francisco Vega got 60 days in jail as a smuggler of bobby pins. In Tulare, Calif., Aubrey I. Morris, whose truck hit a tree, got busy picking up 15 tons of buttons...
...chain of airfields at Wewak. Over this nest U.S. planes roared. Said Kenney's deputy, Major General Ennis C. Whitehead: "The attacks will continue until either the Jap's or our air force is wiped out." After four days of onslaughts by heavy, high-flying bombers and tree-shaving B-25s, the Jap force, desperately reinforced by planes from Rabaul and Kavieng, was wiped out. By week's end Whitehead's pilots had destroyed 223 Jap planes on the ground and 83 in the air, which brought to well over 500 the number of Jap planes...
...when Playwright William Saroyan turned up in Eire on a world tour "to see if it actually was a long way to Tipperary." O'Nolan thought that showed a refreshing curi osity. Saroyan told him that a better title for At Swim would have been Sweeney in the Trees (one character, cursed by a monk, lives in a tree). Later, Saroyan sent O'Nolan $50 for the suggested title...