Word: clovers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know, my dear--have wailed long and loudly about the rights of other citizens to remain sweet-smelling. Farmers complain that skunks dig up bumble bees and not only make them so ill-tempered that they attack without warning, but destroy them as well, preventing the pollenization of the clover. Against such charges, even the skunks retire in confusion...
...Clarence called the steer Dick. When Dick was calved (July 27, 1927), Clarence paid his father, Fred Goecke of State Centre, Marshall County, Iowa, $55 for the gangling Hereford bull. Thereafter, every day Clarence fed Dick ground corn, cooked barley, oil meal, bran, molasses feed, clover hay. Clarence groomed Dick himself, made Dick's hair curly with a special comb, helped make him a steer...
Milk. Like the Postum Co. and Kroger Grocery & Baking Corp., the Borden Co. is constantly acquiring lesser and allied firms. Borden's latest acquisitions are Thompson's Malted Milk Co., Kennedy Dairy Co. and Clover Leaf Milk...
Plants, Lamps.. Plants are hard working members of society. Dr. John Morris Arthur of Boyce Thompson Institute, New York tried to fool them into working all night as well as all day by turning on 48 1,000 watt incandescent lamps. He fooled clover and buckwheat all of the time; lettuce and radish 17 hours of the time; tomatoes rebelled, died...
...Inside Loop." The usual stunt loop-the-loop ("inside loop")?during which the plane rises and is on its back at the top of the loop? brought death to Lieut. Walter J. Ligon, reserve officer, and Ivan L. Hall, student aviator, at Clover Field, Santa Monica, Calif., last week. The wings of their plane collapsed in coming out of a loop at an altitude of 2,000 feet...