Word: field
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joined the boys, Harry Truman was at his handshaking, backslapping best. If there was anything he liked as much as winning elections and playing poker, this was it-the annual reunion of the 35th Division and its famous offspring, Captain Harry's hell-raising Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, A.E.F...
Having objected, Archie reversed his field, demanded that the jury not only see all the slips (twelve had been withheld as dangerous to national security) but all the FBI reports to which they referred. Government attorneys and the FBI objected wildly. But last week white-haired Federal Judge Albert Reeves decided in Archie's favor, ruled that the Government would have to produce the documents in court...
...plane had barely cleared San Juan Bay when the right engine, pounding for altitude, sputtered and conked out. There was no chance to get back to the field; Pilot Cockrill made the best of his only choice. He set the plane down on its belly into the mottled, moonlit sea, a mile from shore, 400 yards from a small island. The lights went out. In the black horror of the cabin many of the Puerto Ricans, chained to their seats by terror, just prayed and waited...
...field of plants, Professor Paul C. Mangelsdorf has recently developed a custom-built corn for New England gardens and named it the Dwarf Harvard Hybrid. The corn, now on the market, is ideally suited to New England gardens and climate. Mangelsdorf's hybrid corns are proving revolutionary for the world's food supply...
...impossible for us to converse? We were both enrolled in the same College, and yet I felt as if we lived in different worlds. Apparently he existed for the various College sporting activities through the year (as a spectator)--while after making scientific excursions into that field, I have found it wanting...