Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meager savings in a repair shop. Their motto: "We tackle anything." Principals in the firm: ex-Staff Sergeant Skeezix Wallet, and his friend Wilmer Bobble of Frank O. King's famed comic strip Gasoline Alley. In their first week, Wallet & Bobble spent most of their time repairing Christmas tree lights. Total take...
...certain land in a certain kingdom, there lived a King called Vyslav Andronovich." The King had a garden with an apple tree that bore golden fruit. "The Firebird took to visiting King Vyslav's garden; her wings were golden and her eyes were like oriental crystals." Every night she stole the golden apples. King Vyslav called his sons: "My beloved children, which of you can catch the Firebird in my garden? To him who captures her alive I will give half my kingdom during my life, and all of it upon my death!" The princes answered with one voice...
When Harry Truman made the traditional demand last spring, the U.S. Government had grown more lumps and bumps than a tree toad-1,141 bureaus employing nearly 3,000,000 people. Despite these admitted tumors, and the fact that the new President didn't seem like the sort of surgeon who would tattoo the patient after operating, just for laughs, Congress spent seven months in alarmed concern...
...observatory called El Amiga Observatorio. It is an amateur astronomer's dream, built to Friend's specifications by local craftsmen. The 16-in. telescope is one of the largest owned by an individual. During the war, when he had to cultivate, irrigate and prune his 1,265-tree, 14-acre orange grove.almost singlehanded, Friend lost some star-gazing time. He now says sadly that "some faint comets probably got away from...
...overland treks. One capricious clarias batrachus, apparently bored with captivity, jumped out of its bowl, wriggled down two long corridors, was caught high-tailing it out the front door. A Danish scientist named Daldorff once saw a fish leering at him from five feet up an Indian palm tree. The Smithsonian's Smith, admitting that he had never personally seen a fish climb a tree, was sure that it can, and does, happen in Siam...