Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snow still melting in the gutter. But the sun was out and the banks of the Charles were once again strewn with people. In his hand Vag carried "The Dynamics of Political Polity," a big brown volume with many Latin quotations and algebraic equations. Vag lay down on the grass, opened his book, and started reading, following the words slowly with his index finger. Political polity, said the introduction, was a new science that would explain most of the events of the last three thousand years. Its basis was in religion-fundamentalism and in the teachings of a Bessarabian mystic...
...Cronin's a few days before, asked him to join them. "No. Big hour exam in political polity," said Vag. They started throwing the ball around, often narrowly missing Vag, who had lost track completely. He put down the book and lay back on the grass, thinking. Was it just possible that political polity could not explain absolutely everything, for example Spring, or the girl who was walking towards him and waving. She was not waving at him, but she reminded him of a girl he had met about the same time last year, and one about the same time...
Freshman epicures will find out if the grass is really greener on the other side of the force, when inter-House eating privileges are extended to all Union diners from March 15 to the beginning of spring vacation...
Next, Kuiper examined the greenish areas. Their spectra indicated that they could not be vegetation like trees or grass. But they might be lowly lichens like those that grow on the dry rocks near McDonald Observatory. Lichens need no water in liquid form. Martian lichenlike plants might get enough water out of vapor from the icecaps, which evaporate without melting...
...Battle of the Bulge) was returned by the Army last November, was still keeping it in her parlor. Mrs. Brown explained that the casket was hermetically sealed. She could not bear to see it lowered into the ground, she said, until the snow melts and the grass turns green...