Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some good news for growers of citrus fruit, cotton and potatoes came from Dr. Robert Metcalf. a co-worker of March's at California's Riverside Experimental Station. He and fellow workers have developed two new double-barreled insecticides that attack pests from inside plants. Called Systox and OMPA, they are a by-product of German wartime efforts to produce a nerve gas. If sprayed only on a tree trunk, Systox and OMPA work their way inside so neatly that they protect leaves that grow after the spraying is done. They seem to leave little harmful residue...
...crowd scorned the meagre efforts of their public servants, the buffoons dashed off to the Square with as much dignity as their flowing cotton robes of pink and white would allow. This Tour de yard is part of the Lampoon's freshman competition...
Trouble in Uganda cuts deep, and lays a heavy burden on the British conscience. It leaves Whitehall less convinced that by giving way, it gains. Uganda is the showcase of British imperialism: prosperous (on coffee and cotton), well governed (by Sanders-of-the-River-style district officers), untouched by the racial discord that disfigures neighboring Kenya. Understandably, Britons argued that if Uganda is in peril, the Empire is nowhere safe...
...children had been bewitched. After all, everyone know the power of the Devil and no one doubted the existence of witches. Does not the Bible say: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."? And had not one of the most learned men of the day, the eminent Cotton Mather, recently published a voluminous work on the evidences of witchcraft...
...story of Increase Mather's courageous fight for deconey and sanity, history adds a bizarre note of irony. A few years after the trials, a book appeared in Boston which denounced Cotton Mather, Increase's son, for his part in the Salem witch-hunts. But although Cotton's son, for his part in the Salem witch-hunts. But although Cotton's role had, in fact, been at best a rather ambiguous one. Increase reseswiftly and violently to his son's defense. Legend has it that a curious ceremony took place in Cambridge a few days after the appearance...