Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stevenson Plan went into effect in Malay States, Straits Settlement and Ceylon on Nov. 1, 1919. Rubber had sold as low as 11½c a pound in 1921, well below production costs. The Plan immediately restricted output to 60% of tree capacity. Every three months restrictions were to be tightened or relaxed according to prices at the London rubber market. Thus production went down to 50% Nov., 1924, through Jan., 1925. Last February all restrictions were lifted. Rubber prices were amply high...
...useful the writers and judges of the essays must bear in mind that the object sought is a practical result, not a utopian solution of an imaginary problem. There is no use in proposing that Delmonico meals should be provided at Holly-tree prices, or in referring to the supposed success in other places of which there is insufficient knowledge. The Freshman Halls and the Union have been trying to give the best food they can for the price charged; and in the former a visiting committee of ladies has year after year reported to the Board of Overseers that...
...same day two books* appeared which lifted the "Father of His Country" put of the cherry tree and put him into the size 13 shoes of a Virginia landowner who rode to the hounds...
...Cherry Tree. "The Cannot-Tell-a-Lie incident of the cherry tree and the hatchet is a brazen piece of fiction made up by a minister named the Rev. Mason L. Weems, who wrote a life of our country's father which is stuffed with this and similar fables...
...bear followed. The cows scattered, uttering mild cries. At the other end of the field stood a pair of spindling spruces. Ranger Irons began to .climb. The bear climbed after him. Long claws reached out, divested him of a rubber boot; he was almost at the top of the tree. The claws reached out again; his leg was bleeding, his courage broken, his strength gone. Death, clumsy and terrible, with red eyes, groped after him along a veering limb. And then came the thud of galloping hoofs below, a cavalcade, with rescue in every tossing neck, waited for Dave Irons...