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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Achuni was taken for his most recent afternoon promenade, he committed a definite breach of etiquette by mistaking a silken limb for a tree branch and starting to make the ascent. Fortunately a disaster was averted by quick thinking on the part of a passer-by who plucked the animal from his shapely "tree" and set him to earth again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Peruvian Animal Loves Liquor, Women's Legs | 10/1/1941 | See Source »

...Harvard Dramatic Club, homeless since the Grant Study took over its quarters at 13 Holyoke St. three years ago, is constructing a clubhouse in the rear part of the original building, which was once the Big Tree swimming pool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Constructing New Clubhouse | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

...clear to everybody that Bertie was "backward, frivolous, vain." They tried sending him to Edinburgh and Oxford, to Canada, to the U.S. He planted a chestnut tree at George Washington's grave, and on one occasion, according to rumor, eluded his guardians "and indulged his abounding manhood in the bagnios of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bertie | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Approaching the field he was suddenly blinded by a burst of stinging smoke, burned by red flames. The ship was out of control and coming down fast when he went over the side, landed precariously in a tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: MOTHER'S CRY | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...five Japanese bombers. Woods dived, landed the plane on a tiny field at Suifu, taxied his ship to the edge of some woods, evacuated his passengers. The Japanese planes followed, dropped 200 bombs. One of the bombs splintered the DC-3's right wing like a lightning-struck tree branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: Space Machine Patched | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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