Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smuggler Hancock become enshrined in the American Genesis; Daniel Boone becomes the leader of the lost in a new wilderness wandering; and the debates of Congress furnish the tediousness of a new Numbers. But the discussion that is already arising over the proposal that Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" be designated the American Psalms gives an indication of the keen competition that faces aspirants for a position in this modernistic All-American...
...Blue Grass Blues...
...Animals adopt the structural formation of the surroundings in which they live for several generations. For instance: the octopus adopts the same texture and form as the sea bottom, the grasshopper assumes the characteristics of a blade of grass...
...their guests first. The best illustration of this was the first night in the outskirts of Tokyo, where we herded on the lawn of a nobleman's house. No one knew who we were, but those wonderful people refused to allow any of us to sleep on the grass without some sort of covering. Where they found blankets and mats for us I cannot imagine, but we had to take them and were thankful, especially as several of the party were injured...
...Yard, it was learned yesterday from Mr. W. S. Burke, inspector of University grounds and buildings. The seedling was given to the University in 1916 by Mr. Leonard W. Ross of the park department of the city of Boston, and it is now growing in the large plot of grass between the steps of Widener and University Hall...