Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shaking the money tree harder than ever, U.S. colleges and universities are carting off a rich harvest of gifts. The 1956-57 take: $832,937,123, received by 910 private and state-run schools. In 1954-55, according to a survey released this week by the American Alumni Council, the American College Public Relations Association, and the Council for Financial Aid to Education. 728 four-year institutions surveyed reported gifts of only $336,030,106. Increase within three years for the 553 private colleges and universities taking part in both surveys...
...speech finds support from a few scattered members of the crowd, who move closer together to avoid the spitefulness of the elm tree...
...Threw out the first ball for the new baseball season and watched Washington upset Boston 5-2; played his first spring golf on both Burning Tree and Gettysburg Golf courses; hooked five trout while fishing at Camp David...
Even as a preteenager, the nameless boy-narrator of Stars is the butt of his Danish schoolmates' gibes. They shrill "Cross-eyes" when he squints. At recess time, they rip off his cap and toss it into the chestnut tree. When he cannot quite make out the math problems on the blackboard and whispers questioningly to a deskmate, the teacher canes him. The boy takes this ugly-duckling treatment philosophically. He believes that his ugly-duckling family, as well as his weak eyes, is to blame...
...grows steadily clearer that Ned, a tycoon in pottery, and Robert, a successful artist, are only a pair of sad dogs snarling for the same old bone, and barking up the wrong tree. Between the artist who sneers at "gobbets of bourgeois wisdom" and the businessman who is nothing but "a lousy provincial potter," it turns out to be fat, good-natured old Joe who achieves love, wisdom and an upbeat ending for good-natured young Novelist Wain...