Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swimming meet open to the entire University including both graduate and undergraduate schools will be held at the Big Tree Swimming pool...
...future college trained dramatists and theatre technicians must apparently be drawn from extra-Cambridge fields. Eugene O'Neil, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, Kenneth, Macgowan, Robert Edmund Jones--these men will have to be regarded as the first fruits of a tree which was never allowed to reach its fullest maturity. Whoever wishes to follow in their steps must seek another institution for the inspiration of an academic theatre...
...flowers, exotic ones with iridescent stems and golden caps rather than the sturdy blossoms of the fields. She drank in his literary phrases as the plants in her hothouse drank the warm, steamy air under glass. Until she really believed that her true relations should be with fern and tree and flower, not with her practical family and tiresome, boreal Roland. After charmingly imagined conversations with a philosophical water-lily and passionate adventures with an Oriental orchid, however, she turns back from this sowing of wild buds to the more dependable arms of the man. . . . The spice of mockery blended...
...Iowa, where his family had gone in wagons, he felt the vast age and oneness of life. It amused him to say that since his direct ancestors numbered millions 30 generations ago, therefore he was descended from the entire English-speaking race. Running up his family tree eight branches he would drop down two and land on Benjamin Franklin, "the bourgeois." The Nile, he would say, is an upstart compared to the Mississippi. Five-toed little Eohippus lived for him in his farm horse, Daisy...
...clock--Tree Exercises...