Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devastated regions of the Somme. Gas soon shrouded the British batteries and their fire ceased. A little before 9 a. m. masses of German troops released from the Eastern Front poured through the fog toward General Cough's British-battalion after battalion, column after column, complete with field bakeries, ammunition trains, medical units, until more than 1,000,000 men were in motion, and advancing columns stretched back 45 miles behind the German lines. On a 75-mile front the Allied lines gave way as the British lost 150,000 men and British and French liaison was broken...
When an 88-pound meteorite thunked into Negro Farmer Dan Solomon's best field on the night of July 11, Dr. Luke Smith bustled out from nearby Chatham, bought it for $4. It was jet black and "smooth as velvet" on one side, heavily "thumb-marked" on the other. Soon he had a score of offers for it-$200 from the University of Toronto, lesser sums from the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Western Ontario in London. "Numerous private collectors have standing offers in for it," said Dr. Smith, "but only one man has come...
...John Flora prepares pots of refreshing black coffee for all hands, takes over the mike now and then if Stan's mouth is full. When 7 a. m. rolls around, the crew go out and have dinner; if the weather is right, they ride out to Floyd Bennett Field and hire a plane (all three are licensed pilots). By afternoon, Stan is usually in bed for the day. He gets up in the middle evening, has breakfast at 10 p m. while his wife, Dancer Gloria Garcia, has dinner, usually makes a round of the night clubs until...
Sulfanilamide, the "wonder drug," introduced into the U. S. in 1936, is credited with remarkable cures in cases of gonorrhea, childbed fever, other streptococcal infections. Last week it advanced on a new field of human suffering...
...help worried trustees, the State of New Jersey two years ago enacted a law broadening the field of investment for trusts. Last week, Newark's Chancery Court upheld the legality of the law, then went further: it issued a list of common stocks in which New Jersey trustees can legally invest...