Word: willow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willow Grove, Pa. last week, horses shied, humans stared, as the world's first "readable'' autogiro was successfully demonstrated. With its propeller still and its three 16-ft. rotor-blades folded back like a closed fan, it chugged along the streets of this placid Philadelphia suburb at 25 m.p.h. until the driver decided to take to the air. Stepping out, he easily swung the rotor-blades into place, fixed them there with three pins. Instant later, the little machine rose into the air, buzzed off over the trees at 100 m.p.h...
...There shaded by some willow trees...
...back as the middle 1600's there were counterfeiters abroad in the land providing just one more obstacle for the struggling colonists to overcome. Genuine coins which are to be seen include three of the "pine tree" variety and four "oak tree." There was a third type minted, a "willow tree" design, but there are none of this pattern in the Robinson display...
...first to stop at Mounty Auburn Cemetery: I do like the dignity of graveyards exceedingly, though I do not like the hopelessness of graves. Here, under weeping willow tree to lie; and many lines did come...
David M. Geoder, age 17, of 458 Willow road, Winnetka, Ill. He attended New Trier High School. He is the son of Lealie M. Gooder, vice-president in charge of sales for the V. P. Blakely Printing Company, and a trustee of Northwestern University. He ranked first in scholarship among the boys in his graduating class, and won the Harvard Club if Chicago Award for Scholarship for three years in high school. He was a member of the track team. In high school he was elected to the honor society in recognition of scholastic ability and leadership...