Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life.* When drained from the soil potassium (as one of its salts) must be replaced in the form of a fertilizer, else only weazened crops will result. The primitive farmer manures his plot with stable gleanings and slaughter-shed offal. The Chinese peasant assiduously gathers the dried plaques of cow dung, the desert agrarian those left by the camel. The War refugee, returned to his Flanders or Vosges farm, is not insensible to the value of the bodies rotting helterskelter across his pitted acres. AH these are organic manures useful for circumscribed farms, but not for wide areas...
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...Eastern Guatemala, Dr. Samuel J. Record discovered a tree never before known to science, named it the cow tree. From its bark, when slit, issues a creamy white latex, delicate in taste, nourishing to man and beast...
Lank taut-waisted fighters, urbane yet steely-eyed diplomats, suave but ruthless statesmen-these are the overlords that Britain sends to cow subject peoples. Such is George Ambrose Lloyd, Baron Lloyd, British High Commissioner to Egypt-a so-called "independent state" whose King, Fuad I, reigns though he does not rule...
When Edward VII looked about for a hardy son-in-law, he was reputedly not unpleased at reports that Prince Carl of Denmark could command any ship capable of being sailed, in language sufficiently lurid to cow the most rebellious forecastle hand. Since Carl has become Haakon, he has not so much mellowed as acquired reserve. Cheerful, kindly, stout of heart, he conceals these characteristics behind the bearing of a martinet...