Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King George, Queen Mary has had every one of the lawn sprinklers at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle turned firmly off (TIME, June 25). Last week when Their Majesties' favorite granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth ("Baby Betty") appeared at her first Buckingham Palace garden party she dropped her curtsy on grass burned practically brown. While the King kissed Betty and stood chatting with her, impish gusts of wind suddenly blew hot among the 9,000 garden party guests. Too late scores of women grabbed for wide-brimmed hats which had left their heads and skimmed away over the lawns. As they...
...experimenting with fertilizers, millions buying power & light systems, millions financing the sale of electrical gadgets, $100,000 trying to make soft coal smokeless. They have built roads, transmission lines, a town and a tourist camp; planted 2,751,000 trees, 7,000 kudzu vines, nine tons of grass seed; started teaching elderly mountaineers trades and have generally created more hubbub than the Valley has seen since Grant took Shiloh in 1862. Most of the Valley's 2,000,000 souls gape in awe at the everlengthening procession of TVA wonders. Some are very angry indeed...
...their better use by those people who cannot make a living in their present positions. Only thus can we permanently elimjnate many millions of people from the relief rolls. [In] some sections of the North-west and Southwest . . . many million acres of land must be restored to grass or trees if we are to prevent a new and man-made Sahara. 3) "I am looking for a sound means which I can recommend to provide at once security against several of the great disturbing factors in life-especially those which relate to unemployment and old age. ... I believe that...
First scenes were acted at Murchison Falls, 150 mi. up the Nile from Victoria Nyanza. Miss Booth acted in a skimpy garment made of monkey fur. Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine rejoiced when a cloudburst destroyed the camp, two hippopotamuses trampled the debris, and Director Van Dyke ordered the company to move to the Belgian Congo...
...night between Sever and Fogg, the President's house and the Faculty Club, is not a happy one. It Quincy were shut off completely, Fogg, the Faculty Club, and the Union would be brought into closer contact with the University. If the pavement were torn up and replaced by grass, Quincy Street would eventually appear to be merely an extension of the Yard, and the buildings on the East side would lose their present disconnected aspect...