Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cosmic rays are the only forces in nature that can shake up the germ cells, changing their original plan of development, making the changes hereditary in many cases. X-rays and cosmic rays exist everywhere. They may, thinks Dr. Muller, be responsible for all changes in the evolutionary tree...
Rawlings, the star Bruin hurler, allowed the Maine team only three hits and while he was in the game held the Pine Tree State nine scoreless...
...Jack Loughner, Charles Dybvig, William Chaffee. They were holders of indoor and outdoor records for model airplane flying. Representatives Clancy and McLeod introduced them to President Coolidge, who went with them to the lawn and watched them fly their toys. Two of the planes crashed in a tall poplar tree, stuck there...
Except for trees which in 15 centuries have grown thickly upon it, the road was sufficiently smooth for motor driving. Directly in line with the recently discovered great causeway running southward from Coba past Lake Xkanha, this road seems part of a great Mayan passage towards Ixil. At the road's end is a flight of stone steps going up a dilapidated pyramid 70 feet high. At its top Mayan priests had the habit of tearing the hearts from living human sacrifices, of offering the warm and bloody things to an idol, and of heaving the maimed bodies into...
...pass the bids of the collectors. Sure enough, at ?12,500 Mr. Dring stopped and Mr. Roberts, looking out for his American client, picked up the bid. Mr. Maggs dropped out at ?13,500. Mr. Roberts and Dr. Rosenbach went faster, like two puppies chasing each other around a tree. "Fifteen thousand,'' said Dr. Rosenbach. "Fifteen thousand, two hundred," said Mr. Roberts. "Four hundred," said Dr. Rosenbach. Then he took off his glasses and wiped them. There were no more bids...