Word: furrowed
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...Banos, Calif., at the wheel of a plowing tractor, Henry Avilla nodded off to sleep. The tractor crawled on across the ranch yard, plowed a wide furrow through a mile of fields, ditches, roads and splintered fences, came to rest against a tree. There Henry Avilla awoke...
...lived all his conscious life in a post-War world. He was playing hide & seek during the age of Flaming Youth. When he was in high school the Crash came and that was something real enough to make a mark upon him. It cut his allowance and put a furrow in his father's brow. He heard talk of hard times and an uncertain future. He saw breadlines. And worst of all, as his time to enter it drew near, there has come a terrible fear that the world would have no place...
...kennels she led two of the saddest beasts in the world, the furrow-browed bitch Champion Sarah of Barchester and Champion Huntsman. Over they went to the house, at Myrtle Grove, where the last burglary was committed. Whiffling mournfully, the leashed hounds were led to a broken window. Champion Sarah suddenly threw up her head and howled. Almost instantly both hounds were scrambling on the trail. Red-faced, hot and excited. Mrs. Sadlier pounded along, her champions nearly pulling her arms out. Up a hill they raced, through copses and hedges and across fields. Dawn was just breaking...
...HAVE PLOWED THE FURROW and planted the good seed; the hard beginning is over. . . ." All hard Congressmen liked that sonorous part of President Roosevelt's State of the Union message. But when he said, "We are, fortunately, building a strong and permanent tie between the legislative and executive branches of the Government," eyebrows shot up. Senator McNary (Republican) called it "the finest repeal of the Constitution I have ever heard...
...them. Roy Nakashima is an M. F. H.* from the Imperial Institute of Tokyo. He spent 20 years studying fish, two of them under Chancellor Jordan at Stanford. He went to Japan, returned with a stock of goldfish which he distributed about the 80 pools of Messrs. Furrow & Bailliere's Ozark Hatcheries. He introduced scientific methods for the control of protozoa flukes, fungi and other aquatic organisms, soon had a fast growing community of strong, healthy goldfish...