Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HETCH HETCHY . . . from Hatchatchie, a Central Miwok Indian name for a grass or plant which grows in the meadow at the lower end of this deep valley, producing edible seeds which the Indians pounded into meal in mortars...
Present-day boys at the large, smart, modern school in the gentle hills of mid-New Jersey are inclined to view the Johnsonian pranks as childish. Their chief stunt is to make "rhinies" (new boys) wear special caps, roll down trouser cuffs, keep off the grass. They stop classes every morning for a 15-min. session of crackers & milk. Lawrenceville enrollment has grown from 60-odd to about 500 and a Student Council rules the campus with a firm hand. It may expel any boy for cause, may even recommend the dismissal of a master. Popular in the Midwest, Lawrenceville...
Pipes are here laid in a vertical position, while between them a sort of wire netting is strung, the finished ensemble being dignified by the name of fence. Every day the fence surrounding the circular grass plot is carefully erected and painted, and every night some thoughtful student demolishes it with his Rolls-Pierce...
...wait, and then, two objects fell from his steady fingers. The size of one was many times the other, and yet, as they sped past the pillared balconies, the waiting men below observed their speed to be the same, then with resounding thud, they fell simultaneously to the soft grass below, landing as one object. The outspoken comments of the gathering rose to loud clamor at this feat of nature. Should a heavy body fall faster than a light one? The man in the balcony leaning perilously above, waited, then turned and descended the winding steps. The intellect...
Sailing to attend the Paris Automobile Show, Signius Wilhelm Poul (William) Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors Corp., who wonders why grass is green, predicted: "This country will never submit to regimentation and it will emerge from the Depression because it has too many Charles M. Schwabs...