Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet officialdom decided to make it plain that good upright Communist bipeds would not be caught cavorting about on all fours. In Izvestia, Party Polemicist Boris Lavrenev reported that a look at Antipin's family tree revealed a wretched bourgeois background. The professor had fought the Red army as a member of Admiral Kolchak's White Guard in 1919. Obviously, Lavrenev concluded, Antipin was nothing but "a common adventurer, slavishly addicted to idiotic . . . ravings...
Light rains and two seven-run spurts by Jackson dampened the home team's hopes. Bright spot of the day for the Annex came in the fourth inning, when pitcher Charlotte Coe sailed the ball into the driveway by the old willow tree for a homer, bringing in three runs. Jackson had already crossed home plate 13 times...
...want to paint a tree," gruff Sir Alfred had snorted at a recent R.A. banquet, "for heaven's sake make it look like a tree!" Matisse's La Forêt (in London's Tate Gallery) did not look a bit like trees to Sir Alfred. Argued Matisse, why should it? Such "material truth," he said, might as well be left to photography. The truth modern painters like himself are after is something else again; it "comes out of the mind of the artist . . . the sentiment of an artist moved by the spectacle of nature...
...still depositing thousands of acres of fine mid-western farmland into the Gulf of Mexico; Army Engineers and the Department of the Interior have bogged down in a jurisdictional dispute over who should cure the river's problems. Loggers in Northern New York State are still leaving hanging tree-tops as they timber, making a fine dry roadway for fire above their forests. Old-fashioned farming methods are threatening the Great Plains with another dust bowl...
...dwellers, and the 23 models for the Harvard Forestry Department. These forestry models were Pitman's biggest job; in one series, he had to exhibit the changes in the vegetation of a typical New England farm from the Seventeenth century to the present. In each of the models, the trees and shrubs had to be perfectly reproduced so that forestry students could identify the different species--even down to the number of whirls on a pine tree...