Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plowed under. The local County Agricultural Committee then ordered him to sow the same 20-acre field to a catch crop of mustard, which would also be plowed under while green to enrich the soil. County Agricultural Committees, consisting of local farmers and Ministry of Agriculture officials, have broad powers to instruct farmers what to sow and produce. But Dennis claimed that mustard would not thrive because the field was infested with charlock (wild mustard, a common agricultural pest detested by grain farmers). Anyway, he said, "I reckon to know more about how to till my own land than...
Commenting on the status of the Album, co-chairman J. Anthony Lewis '48 said that the staff was being expanded to get under way soon on a broad scale of activity. He added that there are a few executive positions yet to be filled...
Bulgarians blinked. Down Sofia's broad main street marched a military procession, preceded by a Greek flag and a color guard, six men in Evzone costume. Behind trooped 84 husky men & women singing Greek battle songs. But spectators were soon reassured that this was not an incipient Greek invasion. What they were watching was a move in the Communist play against Greece...
Pepper Street Gangman. It ran in the family. His older brother, Mack, was second in the 200-meter run at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Jackie was a broad-jumper who once set a Southern California junior college record...
...firm. By going into the real-estate business, Johnny had in recent years regained his amateur status. In the 36-hole final, the crowd backed him, groaned when Robert ("Skee") Riegel, 32, made a brilliant shot. Riegel won 2 and 1. The new king of amateur golfers is a broad-shouldered ex-football fullback at West Point who says he lives in Monterey Park, Calif, but actually lives out of a suitcase on the amateur golf circuit...