Word: clod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with every cent he made or could borrow. By the time he had 12,000 acres the rest of the Delta had been bought up at $10 an acre. The latecomers called him Old Man Town, and Old Man Town set to work draining his sloughs and developing every clod...
...This week he published the great novel-For Whom the Bell Tolls. He took the title from a passage by Preacher Poet John Donne: "No man is an iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, . . . any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee...
Made to Take. "I shall fight in front of Paris, in Paris, behind Paris," swore France's old tiger, Georges Clemenceau in 1914 when German artillery rumbled 17 miles away. "We shall defend every stone, every clod of earth, every lamppost and every building," declared an official French spokesman last week...
...Mice And Men" a great picture. It is its bare-faced simplicity, its unpretentions conception of the relations between mind and man, between man and annual. For once, the movie industry has gone out of its way to approach a world as devoid of glamor and "oomph" as a clod of earth. Perhaps, after all, Hollywood and California are not as far apart as we have been made to believe...
Minneapolis-Moline in meeting this growing competition has produced a "Comfortractor." Its driver sits on upholstery in a cab heated, fitted with radio, dustproof, cooled by an electric fan-the answer to a clod-buster's prayer for release from boredom, sweat and cornfield dirt...