Word: boll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many cotton pests, including thrips, aphids, spider mites and cutworms, are controlled by the internal poison. Boll weevils are killed if they show up during the period of the poison's effectiveness, which is three to seven weeks. Big advantage of the internal poison is that it protects the whole young plant, while sprays and dust may leave some parts unprotected...
...pamphlet's conclusions are based on a boll taken among American students and students form nine other nations in 1950. The American sampling was composed of 481 Harvard men, 97 Radcliffe women, and 215 students from Miami college of Ohio...
...Dancing Bear, by Frances Faviell, and Acquainted with the Night, by Heinrich Boll. Two exciting accounts, one fact, the other fiction, of Germany and its postwar tragedies (TIME...
Said the Globe and Mail columnist in an appropriate final word: "Spare us any more of these symbols which evoke . . . religious bigotry, boll-weevil decadence and depraved mumbo jumbo...
Teaming with Frederick in the visitors' backfield will be Jackson at fullback, Chuck Boll at left half, and Tom Ascani at right half...