Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shade, is so tough that an automobile skid does not scar it. In the south, it has been found ideal for airfields, golf tees, parks, and as a general ground cover. For northern areas, there is a hitch: the grass does not grow very successfully in cool climates, and frost turns it brown...
Navy Lieut. Robert Frost ("from Auburn, Maine; I wish to God I was back there") told a reporter: "We were going crazy with babies at first. There were a lot of orphans, and nobody had thought of baby bottles and nipples for them. We used rubber gloves, medicine droppers -anything to get milk into them. They rushed us out some baby bottles from the States and we are in pretty good shape now." Diapers were included in the Navy's last shipment to Saipan...
...First Frost. In Jersey City, Ignatz C. Banikonis, tipsy and overheated, lay down for a short nap, melted his way through the crust on a pool of tar, woke in the morning frozen in the tar except for part of his head and right side...
...blue and green-winged teal had already begun to fly; canvasbacks, mallards, widgeons, pintails, shovelers and redheads would follow soon, before and with the frost. In western Canada last week 140,000,000 ducks (a 10% increase over last year, 450% more than in 1934) flocked and fattened for the flight south. The great conservation experiment in North America's wild duck factory had hit the jackpot...
...gluten content of 60%, equal to that of the best annual wheats. Experimental plantings have yielded two crops (totaling about 68 bushels an acre) a year. No. 34,085 still has some serious defects: it bears wrinkled grain, is hard to mill, is not as resistant to frost as Tsitsin would like. But foreign experts who have visited laboratories are convinced that in a year or two Tsitsin will have produced a true mnogoletnia pshenitza (many-year wheat...