Word: tree
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...Tree Rings. Dr. Andrew Ellicott Douglass, University of Arizona astronomer, is the founder of the 20th-century science of "dendrochronology"-telling time (in years) by means of tree rings. The thickness of the annual growth rings in trees is proportional to the year's rainfall. Thus the rings fall in patterns corresponding to the varying rainfall supplies during the life span of the tree. By matching patterns from logs of recent date to successively older & older specimens, Dr. Douglass carried a continuous record back several hundred years. Examining logs in the ruins of Indian pueblos built before Columbus...
...Saturday, a 7 inch miniature Totem Pole, carved and painted by the Indians of Old Town, Maine, will be hidden or placed somewhere in the open, in plain sight, in the Vicinity of University Buildings. It might be on the steps of a building, in the crotch of a tree in the Yard,... anywhere that many Harvard men pass daily...
...Seminary. The purpose: to unify the thought of democracy, make it a united spiritual and intellectual force. The cast: seven Nobel laureates, a dozen college presidents, a host of philosophers, scientists, teachers, theologians. Altogether, over 600 representatives from 165 institutions attended, made a gallant effort to piece together the tree of knowledge which for more than a century men had busily sawed into separate branches...
...September, 1639, Eaton was put on trial for beating his assistant with a "endgel, which was a walnut tree plant, big enough to have killed a horse, and a yard in length," and was dismissed from his post...
...when veteran, British-born Director Frank Lloyd began shooting The Howards at Williamsburg, did any major director train his camera on the Founding Fathers. In The Howards of Virginia Director Lloyd presents their era in an able, slow-moving, sincere screen translation of Elizabeth Page's novel, The Tree of Liberty...