Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Making an unearthly clamor in the early hours of the morning and ceaselessly maintaining their activity throughout the day, a trained group of grass-disease specialists from the Davey School of Tree Surgery have drilled an estimated three million holes in the turf of the Yard...
Because the grass strips in the Yard were beginning to resemble a dust-stormed Kansas prairie and the imminence of Commencement Day makes a tidy appearance essential, the Maintenance Department has called in outside aid. A team of four men do the work. Two, with the assistance of a five-ton truck and a pneumatic drill, place row after row of three-inch-deep holes, spaced a foot apart in the grass. The other two follow, filling the holes with plant food and replacing the divots...
...visiting experts claim that the plant food, a secret Davey formula, will force the grass to blossom with an effulgence unseen in recent years...
...Young Grass. Previous tests on the nutriment value of cereal grasses, said Dr. C. F. Schnabel of Kansas City, Kans., were misleading because the grass was too old. Dr. Schnabel took tender, young shoots of wheat, barley, oats, rye, ground them to a meal tasting like malted milk powder, found its food value two to five times greater than spinach, carrots, lettuce or chard, its vitamin content up to 50 times greater. Hens fed on this meal laid twice as many eggs containing fivefold as much Vitamin...
Colonel Roosevelt approves heartily of the many "Grass Root" meetings to determine Republican policy, at which the delegates will be all the small-town and county leaders; the groups go to the very "grass roots" of the party to revitalize it. The meeting in Boston last night was the first of these, and it will be followed by others in the Midwest, Pacific Coast, and other sections...