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Word: grassed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their wheat prediction every morning. Before the week was out the winter wheat estimate had fallen to 442,000,000 bu. In Washington these were dry statistics but in the Midwest, disastrous facts. In North Dakota, which had barely an inch of rain in four months, there was no grass for cattle. Farmers tramped their dusty fields watching their dwarfed stand of gram shrivel and perish. A baking sun raised temperatures to 90°, to 100°. And still no rain fell. Water was carted for miles for livestock. Towns rationed their water supplies. In Nebraska the State University agronomist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Drought, Dust, Disaster | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Like the custom in past years, undergraduates and others who are interested will find places on the grass from which to hear the singing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST CONCERT IN YARD TAKES PLACE TONIGHT AT SEVEN | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

...Hawaii that we best liked," remarked Hans-Bernard Michlowski the German cadet from the Kreuzer "Karlsruhe" to the CRIMSON reporter. "There we every night to dances went . . . Ho! ho we liked very much the girls with the grass . . . wie sagt man das? . . . skirts. They danced on beard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Ist eine Grosse Schoene Universitaet; Wir Lieben die Maedel von Hawaii, Says Cadet | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

Colonel Bradley first leased, then bought the 400-acre Idle Hour Farm in the heart of the Kentucky blue-grass country near Lexington, later acquiring another 600 acres. The Beach Club pays for this establishment. "My stables keep me poor," says Colonel Bradley. "I can't afford to run them. They cost me $30,000 a month year in and year out, and only in two years have my horses' earnings run as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: St. Edward of Lexington | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...poured down at Marathon. To the right of the winding road, on hills where goats nibbled the brown grass, the rocks made sharp black shadows. To the left, a warm, slow spray varied the edge of the Aegean. Pheidippides, running toward Athens 22 mi. away, headed down the dusty road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rata Auki! | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

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