Word: fallow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Similarly, the opposite bank of the Charles may lie fallow until the growth around it has taken shape, when new uses will undoubtedly arise for it. That part of it back from the river, behind Baker Library, might, however, be put to immediate as a site for the power plant which must be erected to supply Harvard with heat and light. Already the Weeks Bridge carries the pipes for the service of the Business School. The same ducts might be employed for the passage of conduits from a main plant located in Alliston. Other plots of University-owned ground available...
...title, "Immortal Longings," the reviewer fails to find the connection. Walter Overlook has a very natural longing for the lady of his choice, whom he looks upon rather indelicately as "a piece of fallow and unseeded ground that lies steaming and smoking in the sun." There seem to be no other longings...
Elbridge Thomas Gerry, 89, lawyer, author of articles on cruelty to children, and owner of a private library of 30,000 volumes, grandson of U. S. Vice-President (1812-14) Elbridge Gerry: "A fallow deer jumped over a 10-foot iron paling in front of my Fifth Avenue house and stood, with vain eyes and excited flanks, before my door. Captured by Policemen and idlers, it was removed to the Central Park Zoo, which reported that it was not one of theirs...
Madame Marthe Bray, president of the French Women's Suffrage Alliance, sat by the chauffeur, directed him to halt at localities judged fallow for stump speaking. The response of the southern French peasantry to this whirlwind "missionary tour" in behalf of women's suffrage was reported "cold...
...some time this jury lay fallow. The God of Vengeance (in which a brothel keeper hoped to keep his daughter untarnished, only to find her perverted by one of the women in his own establishment) was indicted by the Grand Jury, and the producer and some of the performers fined (1923). Last season William A. Brady voluntarily withdrew his Good Bad Woman after much agitation and a conference with the District Attorney. David Belasco purified his notorious Ladies of the Evening and it was allowed...