Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tree Exercises...
...planes. They were to keep hopping until they reached Manila in the Philippines. They received word that in crossing Japan the military authorities would not allow them to land on the Island of Formosa. But Japan's warning proved unnecessary. Landing at Macao, Asiatic Portugal, one flyer struck a tree; his comrade's plane was missing. Companions in another plane had been confounded crossing the turbulent air-passages of hot Arabia, had descended in a sandstorm, been rescued after exposure to fierce hunger and thirst...
...apple tree was important in his adventure, because it was his own apple tree. He had rented it for $10 from a friendly landowner. While he stood in its fork he was abiding in it?hence it was his house and, by the tradition of freehold, his fortress. Some newspapermen, a few strikers, the members of the United Front Committee and a dozen policemen stood around the gnarled bole and listened to him. He asked them to keep the law. He asked them not to commit any disorderly acts. He said that in his opinion the bail...
...basic substance of chewing gum, obtained from the bully tree and the sapodilla...
...France cannot possibly wish to uproot a tree which she has watered with so much care; we would not wish you to think that the United States are becoming ungrateful to a country which has rendered them a great service and which can always give them support against their enemies. It is the interest of both powers to bind closer and closer the ties which unite them...