Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tsitsin thinks he almost has it-his No. 34,085 meets most specifications. This strain, a cross between wheat and couch grass grows summer or winter, is drought-and rustproof, pollenizes itself, thrives even in salty soil (producing salty wheat), and has a gluten content of 60%, equal to that of the best annual wheats. Experimental plantings have yielded two crops (totaling about 68 bushels an acre) a year. No. 34,085 still has some serious defects: it bears wrinkled grain, is hard to mill, is not as resistant to frost as Tsitsin would like. But foreign experts who have...
Like many another farmer in western Washington's Satsop Valley, Albert Kuhlne pastured his cattle along a grass-grown waste of charred logs and blackberry thickets-the scorched remains of a forest fire in 1902. But this summer, as Northwest plywood and lumber mills went hungry for logs, Kuhlne wondered if the "old burn" might not still have some good timber in it. He sawed into a charred tree. After 42 years its core, sealed in by charcoal, was still sound. He found 5,000,000 feet of burned but merchantable timber lying on 400 acres around...
Forgetting that M.I.T.'s annual Field Day was just around the proverbial corner, maintenance crews have been happily cutting the grass, chipping the masonry, and painting the ah, yes, painting! In all seriousness, the pinkish stains which sprinkled the Yard last Saturday morning hardly seemed officially inspired, did they...
...Southwest Pacific, U.S. Seabees, who boast that they can repair anything from a watch to a battleship, turned to another activity in their spare time. A Navy officer reported they were making grass skirts and selling them to the natives. Reason for the market: the Seabees' skirt is better than the native product...
Since defeat had become inevitable, the German plan of resistance had been based heavily on space-territory outside the Fatherland to be yielded slowly, skillfully, expensively to the enemy. Now the space was disappearing like dry grass in a prairie fire. The end could...