Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took a wrong turn in Bangor, Me., drove 88 unfamiliar miles out of her way, turned up at a dinner party just in time for dessert. Comedian Joe Cook sold his fabulous Sleepless Hollow, trick estate at Lake Hopatcong, N.J., complete with squirting telephones, rubber-legged chairs, golf-ball tree, a nine-hole golf course which has a hole-in-one hole. Billy Conn, the almost-champ, arrived in Hollywood with his new bride to start work together in a prizefight movie. Sam Goldwyn signed Lou Gehrig's widow to help film the late ball star's life...
Young Britons' study of the U.S. has always been sketchy: they read the yarn about George Washington and the cherry tree, brief accounts of the "American War of Independence," the Civil War, the Monroe Doctrine, Woodrow Wilson and his League of Nations...
Many a curiously bent tree growing in the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region is no mere freak of nature. It is the handwork of long-dead Indians. In the July Scientific Monthly Geologist Raymond E. Janssen of Evanston, Ill. tells how he settled the puzzle of the crooked trees for which he could find no scientific explanation anywhere. He ran across a few historical references which indicated that "trees were sometimes bent by the Indians to mark trails through the forests." Several summers of study convinced Janssen that the deformed trees are surviving guideposts...
...years ago, Indians twisted the saplings by lashing their tops down with rawhide or vines, weighting them with rocks or soil, or pegging them down with stakes. From about 200 feet to a half-mile apart, their trunks paralleled a trail's direction. Rows of such trees still survive here & there. Today a silent brave, threading his way past filling stations, could still follow a good existing tree-trail from the shore of Lake Michigan north of Chicago, inland through the center of Highland Park (pop. 14,476) to the site of an old Indian village in the Skokie...
...German crouched behind a tree peering across at the Russians. He was in uniform, but he had no gun. He was talking excitedly into a field telephone, but he was not communicating with headquarters...