Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stead, the Department of Agriculture urges farmers to practice "subsurface tillage"-a method using new machinery that cuts off weeds below the surface, leaves the soil with a fertile beard...
Lieut. General Nathan Bedford Forrest was over 6 ft. tall, with curly hair and beard, a voice like a bull's, a heart like a tiger's, and he was the best damn cavalry commander in the American Civil War. (At least, that was what his men all said.) At Thompson's Station, Tenn. he drove a Federal battery and mounted troops from the field, made 1,500 men surrender to his inferior forces. At Black Creek, in 1863, after five days marching and fighting, he captured the Union's Colonel Abel D. Streight with...
Died. Albert Bushnell ("Bushy") Hart, 88, venerable Harvard historian, classroom reference from coast to coast; in Cambridge, Mass. Graduated from Harvard in 1880, a teacher there for 40 years, Professor Hart took into retirement in 1926 the longest beard in the university's history.* Author and editor of over 100 volumes on U.S. history (The American Nation, Source Book of American History), he greatly admired his classmate Theodore Roosevelt, was a great authority on Geoige Washington...
...Harvard beard No. 1 now belongs to Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis lecturer in history of Italian civilization...
When Louise looked out of her bedroom window, she could see the Adamses walking around their box-bordered garden next door. Early each morning Father Randall, with his brilliantined beard and his hearty manner, took Louise to the stables to feed sugar to the horses while they were being curried. He brought her boxes of Page & Shaw chocolates, got front seats for the Admiral Dewey Parade, took her to see Joe Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle. He told her that all their magnificent house needed was a moat and a drawbridge, and he was going to put them...