Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tone of Powell's books recalls Chekhov-the elegiac irony of a world where the last of the wormy, golden apples of Empire were falling from the tree. Yet the essence of Jenkins' war with the world is neither bound to a period nor insularly British. It is essentially a secular tragedy told in the idiom of understatement (which Novelist Powell admits "has its own banality"); there is a pit beneath the parquet floor and the Old School Tie may become a garrote. It needs all his well-tended prose to keep the corpse of nihilism buried...
...Dove, painting on a Connecticut farm, soon earned a first of his own; he was the first to dispense altogether with representation. Yet Abstraction No. 2, done in 1910, is imbued with the qualities of nature. Few representational landscapes carry more sense of sun and shade, stone and tree...
...railroads, few have branched out into more off-track business than the Southern Pacific. It runs a 22-acre produce market in Los Angeles, sold 47.5 million bd. ft. of timber from its 430,000 acres of tree farms last year, has a corps of drivers who pick up every General Motors car produced in California and deliver it to dealers. It was one of the first railroads to start a bus line; it has more truck-line routes than track mileage, and it has even tried to sell airline tickets at its whistle-stop stations. Last week the Southern...
...American Skier Katy Rodolph, a point winner at Oslo in 1952, crashed into a tree in a practice meet, broke a vertebra in her neck and was lost to her team...
Haughtyculturist. In Gerrard's Cross, England, outraged when he found four of his favorite rhododendron bushes missing, Fernley F. Parker chained the remaining five to a nearby oak tree, put up a sign in red crayon: "The person who has now stolen four of my special rhododendrons from here is a despicable coward and thief...