Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Announcement that to help 25,000 idle actors, Author Louis Bromfield (The Green Bay Tree), Publisher Conde Nast, Novelist Fannie Hurst (Lummox), Dramatist Owen Davis (Icebound) would charge $15 the season to people who wanted to see their homes, themselves...
...hundred expert oil wranglers, white-slickered, steel-helmeted, sought to stem the flow by capping it with a hurriedly forged 3,000-lb. steel cone known as a "Christmas tree." Many-valved, it was designed to shut down on the escaping oil little by little. But the white figures could remain near the huge yellow plumes of spurted oil only a few minutes at a time; the work progressed slowly. Only after a three-day struggle did they screw their giant nipple into place and throttle nature's deluge. Leading the labor was the well's owner, Fred...
Peruvian Indians did not know the pharmacology of quinine. But they did know that the bark of a certain tree, from which quinine is derived, cured their malaria. They told their lore to a friendly magistrate, Juan Lopez Canizares, when in 1630 he developed the disease. He passed the information to Countess of Chinchon, wife of Peru's then viceroy, when she fell victim. It was after her that the cinchona tree and its quinine derivatives was named...
...Santiniketan, Bengal, India. When they had made out what was wanted the villagers went out and examined a sapling. "It is shedding its leaves," they cabled back to Tagore, "but its sap is healthy and its life seems assured." Four years ago the sapling was planted as a "Hope Tree" by the Sage. He is supposed to believe that the planter of such a tree will live for at least five years after the planting, providing the tree lives. The villagers' reply that the tree is all right was delivered to 69-year-old Patient Tagore at Lansdowne...
...Canaanite city of Jericho, blew trumpets for seven days before they sacked the city. Recently British archeologists who have spent many months studying the ruins of the city which was destroyed almost 4,000 years ago, announced that they had discovered why Joshua made so much noise. A charred tree trunk plugged into a hole in the inner wall suggested that Israelite trumpeters blew blasts to hide the work of Israelite engineers who were picking holes in the fortifications. Every hole was plugged with a wooden beam or a dry tree trunk. On the seventh day, the wooden fillings were...