Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curio collectors will be wide awake during the next week or more because the Washington Elm on Garden Street will be cut down, if the action of the Cambridge park commissioners and Mayor Edward W. Quinn at a recent meeting is followed out. Although the tree will be carefully cut up and a piece sent to each state of the country and to the District of Columbia and Alaska, chips, perhaps sawdust, will be available for the nervy collector. The tree has been pronounced dead by a tree specialist and its overhanging limbs a menace. The seal of the city...
...course of the blasting the miners had to run many risks and had many narrow escapes from flying rock. Two and a half kegs of black-powder were used and from 40 to 50 tons of rock were lifted in one explosion which cut off some trees 18 inches thick that grew farther down the mountain. The cliff on which the work was done was very steep and rose for 400 feet on the side of the mountain. One large boulder 40 feet long and 10 feet wide was found some distance on occasion and smaller fragments from the block...
...holiday, according to an announcement made yesterday by the Physical Training Department. The hours when the buildings may be used are as follows: the Hemenway Gymnasium will be open from 9 o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clock in the evening: the University Squash Courts, the Big Tree Swimming Pool, and the Freshman Athletic Building, each will be open from 2 until 6 o'clock in the afternoon...
...California sculptor, Arthur Putnam, is generously represented. Gobelin tapestries and Sèvres vases were contributed by the French Government, and the Queens of Rumania, Yugoslavia and Greece sent examples of their respective national arts. Marshal Joffre laid the cornerstone; Marshal Foch planted a tree in the garden of the "palace...
...various fall sports under the University Department of Physical Education start today when the Hemenway Gymnasium, the Big Tree swimming pool, and the squash courts on Linden Street will be opened to members of the University. Students will be assigned lockers upon presentation of their Bursar's cards. The fees will be charged on the regular term bills...