Word: dustiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What saved the crops was the fact that many farmers wisely retired their dustiest fields to fallow. On their remaining acres, they used new chemical weed killers, planted drought-resistant strains whose roots went down 5 ft. to bring up moisture. By last week the victory was in sight: not only was the yield per acre good, but the wheat itself was rich in protein and sure to command top prices on world markets...
...proves himself the greatest living practitioner of the Victorian novel. The hero is that Mauve Decade martyr, the unconventional artist struggling hopelessly for recognition from a conventional world. Its "bohemian" artists and its fusty gentry are furnished forth with stock-company props and costumes dragged from literature's dustiest attic, and Physician Cronin uses every cliche of this oft-told tale with the almost touching innocence of new discovery, right down to the mustiest of them all-the notion that a man cannot possibly be a genuine genius unless he starves in a garret...
...GOVERNMENT DRIVE for economy is reaching into the dustiest nooks and crannies. Latest target is the daily Treasury balance statement, which since 1916 has been issued with a two-day lag, but will now be three days late, thus allowing the Treasury Department to lay off three employees in its Bureau of Accounts. Saving: $10,000 a year...
...breaking spades, football jerseys, guns, loving cups, lariats, old shoes, autographed pictures, boxing gloves, back-newspaper files, geological maps, menus of note worthy Carter banquets and excursions, baseballs and teetering stacks of old correspondence. Like the late W. C. Fields in his bookkeeping role, he can plunge into the dustiest, most disheveled pile of papers and fetch out the document he wants...