Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After years of fitful quarreling, Mexican art's Big Three were on speaking terms once again. Far into the night, in Mexico City, Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros sat gesticulating across their coffee in the California Bar. They strolled down Avenida Juarez together in broad daylight, waving their arms in amiable disagreement. They met for long confabs at Orozco's midtown house...
Both weeds and crops can be divided into two broad classes: grasses (wheat, corn, rice); and broad-leaved plants (cotton, vegetables, clovers). Scientists discovered several years ago that 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) would kill broad-leaved plants while leaving grasses alone. But it is no help at all to gardeners, truck farmers and fruit growers whose broad-leaved crop plants are being choked with grass...
Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced something promising: a synthetic weed killer, isopropyl-N-phenyl carbamate (IPC), which does away with at least one kind of grass without hurting certain broad-leaved crops such as sugar beets and spinach...
...bathtub-sized inlet at Annapolis called College Creek. The creek, only 400 yards long, wandered around four bends and under three bridges. Navy's crew banked around the turns, used more rudder than oars, cussed the creek, and seemed to have become a crack outfit. On the broad Hudson at the Poughkeepsie intercollegiate regatta last week, the Annapolis crew proved...
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, bearing a mandate from the British cabinet to present Britain's views, was not due until tomorrow. An authoritative report from London said British and United States representatives there had reached "broad and general conclusions" on how U. S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall's proposal on European aid could best be approached...