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Word: acree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Holy City. Mountain-rimmed Salt Lake City (pop. 183,000) is no longer a fortress and a prison. Last week the town which Brigham Young laid out "foursquare with the compass" with wide streets and ten-acre blocks, was a center of Western commerce and trade, hub of three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: A Peculiar People | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

There had never been a Hereford bull like Hazford Rupert 81st. At the age of three he won the grand prize at Chicago's International Livestock Exposition in 1936. Deep-bodied, square-rumped, the Hereford champion was sold to Cattleman Roy J. Turner, now Oklahoma's Governor. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Million-Dollar Baby | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Despite his complex deals, Murchison is no round-the-clock grind. In his 20-room mansion near Dallas, he likes to give big parties in a bar whose walls are sheathed in gleaming tarpon scales. Murchison takes off his tie, rolls up his sleeves, and invites his guests to do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 60-Day Man | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Color & Variety. To farmers who are not particularly worried about an earthworm shortage, Hopp & Linder point out that the earthworm is one of the world's most efficient farmhands: it does an enormous amount of soil conservation. Toiling underground, the hard-working worms in one acre can eat, pulverize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Vanishing Earthworm | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Danger & Nerves. Hopp & Linder made a substrata survey of fields where there was no protective covering, discovered that all earthworm life was snuffed out in a single freezing spell. But in a burlap-covered acre, 995,000 worms survived; 1,610,000 slithered to safety beneath a protective acre of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Vanishing Earthworm | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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