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Word: tree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professional people-the dress model, the process server, the speakers' bureau, the tree surgeon etc.-can still charge what the traffic will bear, since they are exempt from the Price Control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shoeshines and Undertaking | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...himself behind a nearby tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singin' Gatherin' | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...Neath a ton of sugar, by a rubber tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patterns | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...under the apple tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soldiers' Song | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...tunes, like grass fires, usually start in a small way. Somebody plays them. Somebody hums them. Suddenly they catch on and sweep the country. Glenn Miller introduced Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree last February. Two and a half months later, it led in sheet-music sales, radio performances and on the Lucky Strike Hit Parade. At New York University, music students voted it one of the two popular songs most likely to outlast the war (the other: Buckle Down, Buck Private). This week it was sweeping the Army camps. Its catchy chorus, which sounds like a swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soldiers' Song | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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