Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern Great Plains Experimental Range at Woodward, Okla., state and federal experimenters found that airplane-sprayed 2,4-D, the chemical that kills "broad-leaved" plants while leaving grasses unharmed, did a fine job of killing sagebrush. The treatment costs a little more than $2 an acre and destroys as much as 90% of the pest. On de-brushed range, cattle gain 75% more weight per acre, and sell for twice as much as if they had to hunt grass among sagebrush...
Frost was still on the grass at Savanna, Ill. (pop. 6,000) when he told 800 early risers: "I hope you don't catch cold. But I suppose you Illinois folks are used to this weather." As the train rolled along the upper Mississippi, he climbed up into the vista-dome car provided by the Burlington Railroad, gazed out at the great river that licked at the roadbed. He cracked that the Mississippi didn't really get big until it was joined by the Missouri...
Freshman Coach Henry Lamar, when snow covers the sleeping gridiron, often interviews athletically minded men and tries to convince them of the value of a Harvard education. This writer offers a humble suggestion to Mr. Lamar, to wit: That the grass grows green in the Boston home pasture, and that diligent search in season may he worth a lot of hoeing on frost stiffened ground...
According to members of the Social Relations Department, this proves that "the grass on the other side of the fence is not only greener but also taller...
...Fight for Better Schools (MARCH OF TIME) is a blue print for grass-roots action to right a widespread U.S. wrong...