Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Formerly "Big Tree" Pool...
...enemy territory; together they killed two Germans, led out an isolated company that had been cut off. He was wounded in the shoulder and foot, and next day advanced alone in another attack. Two Germans fired at him. One arm was useless, so he propped his rifle in a tree, picked off the two Germans who had shot...
...There ain't agoing to be no core," said Tom Sawyer, but he was 80 years ahead of the times. The first coreless, seedless apples known to science were discovered only last year. Weighing a plump quarter-pound each, they grow on a freak tree in Mrs. Libbie Wilcox's backyard in Huntington Park, Calif...
This week the Department of Agriculture is working with the tree in the hope of making seedless apples as commonplace as seedless oranges. Since there are no seeds to plant, the new fruit must be propagated by grafts on normal apple trees...
When John Calhoun became Secretary of War, Shreve got his chance. While jeering onlookers hooted, the snag boat "drove head on at a massive 'planter' (half submerged tree). There was a booming impact and crash. It seemed to the onlookers that the boat must be shattered to pieces. But there it was, still intact, and the huge tree toppling into the water. A spontaneous cheer went up. . . ." "By the end of 1830, the age-old drowned forests had vanished from the Mississippi...