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Page 508
... Trees The poet's words ring exuberantly , the President's are plain . But both bespeak a similar emotion , a reverence for nature in one of its proudest manifestations — the trees that rise to rare magnificence in the American South ...
... Trees The poet's words ring exuberantly , the President's are plain . But both bespeak a similar emotion , a reverence for nature in one of its proudest manifestations — the trees that rise to rare magnificence in the American South ...
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... Trees Intelligent Some Indians believed that trees had intel- ligence superior to man's . An Iroquois legend tells of a star that fell from heaven and buried itself in the ground ; it sprouted into the first pine - tallest of trees ...
... Trees Intelligent Some Indians believed that trees had intel- ligence superior to man's . An Iroquois legend tells of a star that fell from heaven and buried itself in the ground ; it sprouted into the first pine - tallest of trees ...
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... tree and cottonwood . ) Timber is now a billion - dollar industry in the South , ahead of the cotton crop and close to the biggest money - maker , tobacco . City people invest in woodland much as they do in stocks and bonds . That trees ...
... tree and cottonwood . ) Timber is now a billion - dollar industry in the South , ahead of the cotton crop and close to the biggest money - maker , tobacco . City people invest in woodland much as they do in stocks and bonds . That trees ...
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Flight to Adventure Flying Their Own Singleengine Plane a Daring | v |
To the Men at South Pole Station By Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd | 1 |
Fledgling Wings of the Air Force By Thomas W McKnew | 266 |
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