Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help the proposed committee in its task, some 400 Canadians had already sent flag designs, ranging from dull to weird, into Ottawa (see cut). Most of them favored a maple leaf. Other ideas: a beaver, a fir tree, wheat, the French fleur-de-lis, stars, miniature Union Jacks, a design like the U.S. flag, with a stripe for each of the Dominion's nine provinces. CCFer Gladys Strum proposed a flag picturing "a buffalo, a beaver, a maple leaf and a mountain. Yes, and we had better have a river...
...make the going pleasanter, the Met will throw out what Director Francis Henry Taylor calls the "bronze grapefruit tree" lamps that flank the entrance, and the gingerbread decorations inside, will re-do the 25 formidable front steps so that they do not make people shrink and slink as they climb them. The giant tomb of Perneb, which stands like a road block before the Egyptian wing, will be tucked into place about two blocks away. The Met will also put in escalators for weary museum-feet, a new, airy restaurant for the hungry, a radio-broadcasting and television studio...
...predicted Christmas-tree cutters in the Pacific Northwest, which furnishes a third of the nation's trees. Moreover, wholesale prices will be about half the 1942 wartime peak. Retail tree sellers, as usual, will charge what the traffic will bear...
Adam and Eve before the Fall were "food gatherers," in anthropological jargon. Like Bushmen and Piutes, they lived on what they could rustle up. But after they ate "of the tree of knowledge" and were driven from the Garden (Genesis 3: 16-19), they became husbandmen. Then Adam tilled the earth "in the sweat of his face...
...that I have towards life. ... I do not care to repeat [details] with anatomical exactness." The pictures look as though Matisse had been looking at the model, not the paper, and acting out what he saw with fine, free-swinging gestures of his right hand. "When you draw a tree," he explains, "you should have the feeling to reach up with...