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Word: tree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite inspired and thrilled at the news in the Herald that "tree sitting" has supplanted goldfish consumption as a prize stunt at Harvard University. So here's to better and greater "tree sitters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 2/8/1940 | See Source »

...takes to sit up in a tree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 2/8/1940 | See Source »

...sitting all day in a tree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 2/8/1940 | See Source »

...known "Mountaineer Poet," Jesse Stuart, Still makes his child's world as bright as a new dime. It was not a world in which dimes were common. On the barren slope above Blackjack Mine, Bracky Baldridge owned a garden patch, a shack with puncheon floors, a black birch tree. When the mines along the creek closed one March, Bracky's no-good cousins, Harl and Tibb Logan, came to live with the Baldridges. The dried beans ran out fast. Then soft, lazy Uncle Samp came and stayed, his thin grey mustache so long he wrapped the ends around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mountain People | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...photogenic Yardling planned to perch himself far out on the limb of some small tree in the Yard and cast appealing looks at the lady of his choice, Libby Esler '43, who had supposedly refused him a date. The climax for assembled photographers was to be the moment when the Radcliffe miss finally consented, and the lover's unique lament could be ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE BEAUTY THWARTS YARDLING'S PUBLICITY STUNT | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

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