Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generally conceded that Karel Kozeluh and Vincent Richards would meet in the finals as they do in all U. S. Professional tournaments, whether played on boards, clay, or grass. The other pros who played them in their respective divisions of the draw failed to take many games. Howard Kinsey, who ranked in the first ten as an amateur, did well when he won 13 from Kozeluh in three sets. Paul Hesten, in the other semifinal, lost to Richards more quickly...
...Wann, Okla., Rancher Al Gottlieb told how his pastures were parched with drought, how his 500 steers refused to eat the yellow grass, became lean. He went to Kansas City, said he bought 500 pairs of green goggles, fitted them on the steers. Then they ate ravenously, grew...
...should make haste!" cried Finance Minister Ernst Trygger of Sweden. "If we do not soon lower the tariff walls that are stifling inter-European trade it will be too late. As our Swedish proverb well says, 'While the grass is growing the cow dies...
Aside from the d'Abernon visit, the great event in Argentina, last week, was the end of a cataclysmic six-month drought. Both the flax and wheat crops were on the point of utter ruin. Grazing grass had withered and died. Ranchers had petitioned for Government aid to buy fodder and save their cattle...
...National Education Association, to a little crowd of Nebraska farmers gathered last week in a grove, across the road from a one-room schoolhouse, the Fairview District School, near Elmwood. The occasion: the school was 50 years old. Fifty years ago Educator Crabtree punched cattle in the dusty buffalo-grass outside the grove; 46 years ago he caned culprits, taught lessons in the schoolhouse...