Word: corns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days a year the arena is rented out to cowboys, clowns and corn peddlers, does the drama-starved aficionado still throw garbage at the only bullfight to come along...
...into the saloon, and the wonder is that their work is still a rarity on television. But last week televiewers had their fill of flying-in both fact and fiction. And even when Air Force technical advisers were looking the other way, neither overexcited writers nor overemotional actors could corn up the show...
...inch, circular cake pan filled with earth was spun, and divided by a piece of lath. On each side of the barrier 23 kernels of corn were planted, and the pan was spun again to select the side to which "positive prayer" should be addressed. For eight days, prayer for growth was given to that side, prayer against growth to the other. Result: "Sixteen sturdy little seedlings greeted us on the positive side. On the negative side there was but one." Against that stubborn seedling the experimenters directed "several brief 'bursts' of negation-strong mental commands to grow...
...very wet corn snow, Crimson captain Don Stephenson won, Bill Niemi and Al Arkley finishing third and fourth respectively. Though Harvard's victory was quite decisive with only three racing for each college, the total times for the two teams were extremely close: Harvard 217 sec., Yale...
...Fancy-packaged, usually fancy-priced preparations of unsaturated fats, to be taken as medicine or used in cooking, are usually no better than plain corn or cottonseed...