Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years creep slowly by, Lorena The snow is on the grass again...
...fish will never be a really large source of food, and the microscopic vegetation of the sea is too dilute for easy harvesting. But Dr. Bonner thinks that some algae-eating animal (a "sea-pig") may be domesticated or developed to graze on sea water as cattle graze on grass. His conclusion is that there is no practical limit to the amount of food that the world can produce...
South of Egypt the arc measurers ran into wild animal country. The lions did not bother them much, but they had some buffalo scares. In tall-grass country they set up prefabricated 100-ft. towers and did their surveying from platforms on their tops. When finished, they would move, towers and all, to an unsurveyed area. The last gap, Khartoum to Uganda, was completed...
...defunct medical school squatted quietly near Waltham, Mass. The 200 acres of grass and mud were violated only by a stable, a single classroom building, a few houses, and The Castle, a fantastic melange of turrets and crenelations...
...reading habits, the American Institute of Public Opinion reported some sorry figures: 57% of the nation's high-school graduates and 26% of its college graduates have not read a single book in the past year. Asked to name the authors of twelve famous works- Leaves of Grass, Gulliver's Travels, The Origin of Species, etc.-9% of the college graduates could not give a single name. 39% could not name more than three...