Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rate, I venture the guess that Mr. Milstead with all his deep rooted Ku Klux Klan brand of patriotism and desire to die for his country, did his fighting during the World War in the Battle of the Living Room, or certainly in the Guerre de la Chambre de Couche . . . IRA HODES New York, N. Y. Born in, fought and bled, and like hundreds of thousands of other non Ku Klux Klanners ready at a moment's notice to fight again for our United States of America...
...postscript strangely interests me- Born in and ready to die for the United States of America." Well, why not? I'm sure it would help some. C. F. BUNN Welch...
...geologist, he knew that the earliest evidences of life on the earth were fossil bacteria living in a torrid climate. But climates change in geologic time and heat loving bacteria die. The quota of bacteria must be periodically filled to keep the population thriving...
...hogs or something is wrong in the stock yards. Corn for May delivery passed $1.03¼ a bushel whereas hogs "at Chicago" sold from $6.65 per cwt. undressed. Foreign corn demand has made golden maize too dear for U. S. pigs to eat & grow fat. The pigs must die lean & cheap. Overproduction of litters, weaned on high priced feed, plus the abnormal foreign demand for corn explains the current departure from the inexorable "parity." Farmers must win back on corn what they lose on swine. Furthermore, the situation in rye (unexplained except for unrivaled Eastern demand), is unusually bullish...
...53rd Street and the East River, Manhattan, murder was as plentiful as dust under the bed. First, Julia, eldest Greene daughter, was shot in the heart in her bedroom with the lights turned on. Then, Ada, youngest and adopted Greene daughter, was shot in the back, but did not die. Then, Chester Greene was killed; then- but that would spoil the story. Anyway, all the Greenes hated each other like poison; they were forced to live together in the old homestead with their irascible mother, by the will of their father...