Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working in the studio of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft at Chicago, she analyzed materials from living trees, old log cabins and bridges, refuse from sawmills and barrel factories, charcoal from old campfires, relics from Indian caves and graves, a ton of tree sections supplied by a Wisconsin paper manufacturer who had just taken a paper contract for LIFE. She patiently placed pieces hundreds of years old in sequence by their overlapping ring patterns, and reconstructed growth calendars for several types of trees...
...sponsored part of Miss Hawley's work to learn about past cycles of drought and deluge revealed in the old trees in order to learn about future problems in harnessing a great watershed. Federal entomologists were interested because weather cycles affect the number of insect pests which they may have to fight. Meteorologists welcome the tree-ring studies because weather forecasts derive in part from elaborate past data. And archeologists can read history in tree rings: Douglass, for example, showed that the dreadful drought which started the decline of the high culture of the Pueblo Indians began...
...daughter (Betsy Blair) tends the mice in the house and believes it is they who sometimes spell out her name in flowers on the floor (actually it is just Brother, assisting the family poesy). Brother (Eugene Loring) writes "books"-each consisting of a single pregnant word. One "book" reads "tree." He can also "hear" another vagrant brother in New York playing Paul Whiteman's old waltz, Wonderful One, on the cornet. A shy official arrives, bent on canceling the pension check, but is so beglamored by the fey, bemused life of the household that he arranges to have...
...Academy Award for his notable performance on the back seat of a careening stage coach. Last week, filming The Devil & Daniel Webster on a California lot, Character Mitchell rode again, this time holding the reins himself. The horses charged through two sets, smashed the old-style buggy against a tree, tossed Driver Mitchell to the ground with skull contusions...
Stocks also came near hitting new lows in relation to yields and earnings. Ever since a few brokers swapped stocks beneath a Manhattan buttonwood tree, the rule-of-thumb way to value a stock was to multiply its profits by ten. Stable earners (like tobacco manufacturers, food companies, utilities, etc.) might be worth up to 20 times earnings. But today many stocks sell at four, three, or two times earnings. Examples...