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Word: treeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Considers "the greatest shot" he ever saw was Ted Ray's 170-yard mashie niblic from behind a 40-foot tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Sportsman | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Walk along the ground with a breeze at your back, approach a fence, bend your knees, spring lightly into the air when you feel the tug of the balloon. You will sail over the fence so easily and land so gently that you will be surprised. Barns and trees can be surmounted with more vigorous leaps, usually requiring a light second push-up with the tip of the toe on the barn's roof or on the tree's outlying branches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Balloon Jumping | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...inaudible flashes. . . . Four and one-half hours after sending their last cry for help, Flyers Smith and Bronte planed down toward a thorny strip of land guarding a lagoon on the isle of Molokai* in the Hawaiian group. Bushes ripped their ship as it crashed down through a breadfruit tree. But their gasoline had lasted just long enough. They were out of the fog. They were safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Fog Flight | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...Justice!" When Communist newspapers shrieking Miscarriage of Justice! were snapped up by workmen hurrying to their factories, an opinion rapidly sprang up that it would be better to spend the day demonstrating in the broad, tree-shaded streets of Vienna, rather than to ignore the cause of JUSTICE by laboring as usual in some humid factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Riots | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Other works of Author Wiggam: The New Decalogue of Science, The Fruit of the Family Tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Picturesque Eugenics | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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