Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campus of Brazil's Rural University last week, the atmosphere was anything but collegiate. In black cassocks and brown robes, 41 priests and monks said their prayers at improvised altars in the dormitory halls, then went on to lectures and field demonstrations on crop rotation, irrigation and rural sanitation. What they learned in their month's stay would be passed along with their sermons and ministrations at outposts in 16 Brazilian states. The course was part of the university's effort to teach Brazil its biggest lesson: how to grow its own food...
Last week beefy Bill Richards stood in the midst of his 1,000,000 heads of iceberg lettuce (he will plant his broccoli this week), watched the slowly circling sprays of water soak the light brown soil. He was sorry, he said, that other New England farmers were having it so bad, but he was certainly grateful for that smashup on the race track...
Last week, as the university's brand-new president, Terris Moore had just met the faculty, accepted a world's record brown bearskin for the university museum and got settled for the summer in the girls' infirmary while a house was being built for him. A week before, Alaskans had come from miles around to say goodbye to the university's founder and first president, leathery Charles E. Bunnell (TIME...
...Pyatov tried to get a patent on his method of rolling armor plate. The czarist government submitted it to "foreign vultures" for their opinion, was informed that the invention was dangerous and impractical. A year later, the Soviet press asserted, the plate was produced by a vulture named Brown, in Sheffield, England. The list of Russian firsts which pulls Pyatov up from obscurity starts with the adding machine, anesthesia, Antarctica, atomic fission, runs on to the wedge breechblock and the wool-combing machine...
...investment trust, notably the "open-end" or "Boston-type" trust. Though the ailing securities market in general is barely breathing, the nation's investment companies sold $80 million worth of their own shares in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 26% over 1948. Said Edmund Brown Jr., president of Manhattan's fast-selling Fundamental Investors, Inc.: "May was the biggest month in our history and June was almost as big. Last year's business was around $10,000,000; this year we're running at the rate of $12 million." The open...