Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like your Anthropology on the cob, you can go to the Peabody Museum to see a special Thanksgiving week exhibit of "the origins and spread of Indian corn and its effect on the social and religious life of the American natives...
...steer, one medium steer, one scrub steer, three dairy cattle, one big black Poland-China sow, eight pigs. Except for the scrub steer (brought along as a horrible example), all were sleek, handsome, groomed within an inch of their lives. Sharing their train were exhibits of various grasses, seed corn, peanuts, fencing methods ("Keep Ferdinand a Sissy with a Strong Fence"), poultry charts, pine seedlings, pruning tools, turpentining operations. While a sound truck played hillbilly music near the tracks, thousands of Florida farmers, black & white, marched through the train...
...exhibit halls on the ground floor of the Museum will be remodeled to provide space for special exhibits. In the meantime small exhibits are to be arranged in the front entrance hall. The next one opens before Thanksgiving and will deal with the origins and spread of Indian corn and its effect on the life of the peoples of the American before the coming of the Whites...
...classroom lore, Edgewood students pass their examinations with their noses, must be flunked if their sense of smell is subnormal. Sniffing daintily while instructors release small concentrations of gas, they identify chemical agents by their odors. Mustard smells like garlic, lewisite like geraniums, phosgene like musty hay or green corn, tear gas like apple blossoms. No man has yet devised a war gas that is odorless. Until someone does, the nose of a battalion gas officer, sharpened at Edgewood, will still be the No. 1 defense against...
Earthquakes of Intensity Seven are bad.* The one that shook Adolf (Providence-Is-With-Me) Hitler's latest victim, Rumania, last weekend was not a seven or eight but an Intensity Nine lateral quake that caused the ground to shift back & forth like corn in a popper. "It was like being on top of a poplar tree ... in a high wind," cabled a reporter...