Word: cod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name on the mailbox-New Alchemy Institute-suggests that the small Cape Cod farm is dedicated to the ancient quest for a way of transforming base metals into gold. In fact, the farmers are pursuing an equally elusive but more modern goal: alternative methods of feeding the earth's billions without excess use of fertilizers and pesticides, waste of coal and oil, or reliance on the new hybrid grain crops, which despite their high yield are often vulnerable to disease...
...Outer Cape--the final hook in Cape Cod that stretches 27 miles from Orleans to Provincetown--is a desolate place during the winter...
...Frosh. vs. Cape Cod...
...Frosh. vs. Cape Cod...
Come Saturday morning the staging area behind the old railroad depot was full of yapping dogs and eager drivers, who made last-minute adjustments to their birchwood sleds, dosed their teams with cod-liver oil, and administered suppositories so that the dogs would excrete before and not during the race. As the town's lone vet scurried about treating sore legs and nervous stomachs, sheriffs deputies shooed away an occasional stray Dalmation or schnauzer...