Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main feature of the evening will be the presentation of a stone bench to the House by the staff. This seat is being given in memory of the late Chester Noyes Greenough '98, first Master of Dunster, and will be placed under the elm tree in the main court...
Dunster succeeded Nathaniel Eaton, the first school Master, a "rare scholar" but one who fled after having corrected one of his assistants, for it is recorded that Eaton "beat him for nearly two hours with a walnut tree plant big enough to have killed a horse and a yard in length." For this disciplinary action the public demanded his discharge and a 30 pound fine...
Resting in the bottom of the Big Tree swimming pool (drained) is a locker room, a gymnasium, a country store complete with miles and miles of food boxes tacked to shelves, a seven foot chandelier, and sundry other items, newly acquired property of the Harvard Dramatic club...
...that shook Adolf (Providence-Is-With-Me) Hitler's latest victim, Rumania, last weekend was not a seven or eight but an Intensity Nine lateral quake that caused the ground to shift back & forth like corn in a popper. "It was like being on top of a poplar tree ... in a high wind," cabled a reporter...
...bygone days, when a family tree was a ticket of admission to the National and most spectators knew a martingale from a bridoon, harness and saddle horses held the audiences spellbound. In the past decade, since Broadway discovered the Horse Show, jumpers have stolen the spotlight. With blank eyes last week the plain-clothes crowd watched the Adrian Van Sinderens collect ribbon after ribbon in the harness classes. With boredom they watched the saddle horses step around the ring, exhibiting their three gaits, their five gaits, over & over. But when the jumpers came out, the crowd showed some interest. This...