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...long as sorghum hangs heavy, golden-rod gilds the fields and black bass sail fat and complacent on river bottoms, our constitutional and, let us hope, indigenous heritage of godliness should be able to circumvent Cicada McCarthys, Cicero citizens and their contemporaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...years tried to keep the ideas from public garbling is a precise, British-born lawyer named William Henry Meadowcroft, 76. Last week Secretary Meadowcroft was exasperated by reports that he had predicted 16? per lb.: the present low price of real rubber, as the price of golden-rod rubber.† Neither Inventor Edison nor anyone in his organization could guess yet at manufacturing costs or how many acres of goldenrod would produce a ton of rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Goldenrod Rubber | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Long before the first golden-rod grows bright in far away fields, the yellow lights of the new season are raised above Broadway. By September, usually, the first hit has arrived in town; the streets off Times Square are crammed with stage folk who hope this winter not to play Des Moines; the dramatic critics, yellow and sick from uncustomary contact with the sun, are once more being kittenish on the keys. At the centre of all this glittering activity are the producers; it depends upon them whether the new year shall be tawdry or delightful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The New Season | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Still the sun-lit golden-rod...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A YEAR AGO. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

...Golden-rod and sunflowers glow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

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