Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through all that mountain's uncorrupted height, Past treeline, shrubline, grass, above all soil, The mind awakens and the eyes delight In contemplation of a crystal sight Made beautiful and sacred by our toil...
...shadows of early evening were beginning to creep across the infield, but nobody made a move to leave. Other athletes in brightly colored warm-up suits lounged on the grass, spectators now themselves. The attention of everyone in cavernous Stanford Stadium was focused on a lanky figure poised at the end of the high-jump runway...
...reason for this, suggests Investors Diversified Services Vice President Donald E. Meads, is that the principal customers of the funds are "grass roots people. They don't have ticker tapes running through their living rooms, so they are less likely to get swept up in panic." And George Whitney, a trustee of Massachusetts Investors Trust, believes that in the long run Blue Monday may have the same effect on the funds as the 1937 downturn -which produced a 13% sales gain for M.I.T. If nothing else, however, the post-crash performance of the mutuals should serve as a reminder...
...Grass Roots People. So far, the shock waves of Blue Monday do not seem to have significantly weakened investor confidence in mutual funds. Though total mutual fund sales dropped from $292 million in May to $219 million in June, redemptions of fund shares fell during the same period from $121 million to $107 million...
Homogenized, pasteurized, refrigerated, U.S. milk is an eminently safe beverage. But U.S. laboratories are hard at work trying to make it even safer. In a cold war world, scientists must somehow learn how to extract the radioactive strontium 90 that is showered down on pasture grass from atmospheric nuclear tests. At present, U.S. cows do not take in enough strontium to make their milk dangerous, but testing may well continue; the problem may well get worse...