Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much had been spent on their construction in the finest type of High-Inca architecture, that they were entirely too few in number. This at least was an explanation for certain curious structures which we had found in the vicinity--little platforms set in the branches of nearby trees, with scanty-walls and roofs. No doubt these tree-huts had been the overflow dormitories. It seemed strange to our investigators that the Incas, so highly civilized in many ways, had been so careless of the bodily welfare and domestic comfort of the students. Cordially yours, J. BLAIR-DUNCAN...
...organized athletics, which is not in harmony with the conception of an institution of learning. As a result, there are those in the faculty, and there always will be, who will be sniffing suspiciously at this lusty growth, which seems to them at times to be threatening the parent tree. At times the suspicion that something is wrong becomes a conviction and then there is much ado for a time, as the most alarmed of the faculty vent their wrath against manager or player...
...McLane is not bound, either by ignorance or inclination, to any one time or place or subject, and the best proof of this is in the excellent balance of his book. It contains one long poem, "Cassandra". a rather shorter one entitled "The Fig Tree", and many sonnets and miscellaneous poems of varying length. At the end of the volume is a sequence of poems some of which appeared in his previous work "Spindrift, forming an elegy...
...Tree" Mr. McLane retells the famous story of Christ's anger from the Fig Tree's point of view, as it were. No interpretation can ever rob the legend of its unfairness and its pettiness, and those who accept it must do so with blinded or winking eyes. Mr. McLane is the first to reject it openly and convincingly, but of course the logical answer to his poem is that the legend from its very incompatibility is patently a lie, and reproach should be directed not against the victim but against the fabricators of it. As a piece...
...thought to have been a swamp formed by the delta of a river flowing from what is now northeastern New England into a continental sea which covered most of New York, Pennsylvania, and the regions to the westward. The fossils, weighing several hundred pounds, are good examples of the tree-like Devonian vegetation found in this region...