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Once more the Reds beat the drums in front of East Prussia. From the banks of the narrow Scheschuppa River on the border, a Red Fleet correspondent wrote: "Before us stretches Germany. Beyond this insignificant river is a steep bank, then fields with clover, brush, clumps of trees surrounded by wire and trenches, big barns with tile roofs, the red and pastel-colored roofs of houses. . . . We know that the earth beyond the Scheschuppa River will take a lot of our blood, but we know that without this blood humanity can never find peace...
From Ireland: "This is a pretty place but nothing compared to Iowa. I am sending you some shamrock I picked. It grows just like our clover. . . ." From Texas: "So this is Texas! You grab a towel, fumble for soap and run out of the tent into the flawless darkness of a Texas morning. And what mornings! Ten million stars an arm's length above you. The air is brisk, often biting. The pungent smell of wood smoke is everywhere. . . ." From Italy: "Here I am in an old Italian house and we have a fire going in the fireplace...
Oklahoma! Mint-fresh, clover-sweet folk musical with charming, un-Broadwayish dancing and gay Richard Rodgers tunes (TIME, April...
...made his discovery when cattlemen in North Dakota and Canada complained that some of their stock died from bleeding scratches and bumps, like human hemophiliacs. He found the guilty chemical in spoiled sweet-clover hay, named it Dicumarol because it is formed from the harmless chemical, coumarin, which gives fresh clover its smell. The cows' problem was solved by planting clover with a low coumarin content...
...thing. . . . This may seem like quite a tirade . . . yet if tomorrow, by a decision of the Supreme Court, [a] half-dozen terrifying words were restored to currency, if I, like the great English writers of the past, were permitted to use them, I should undoubtedly be sitting in clover...