Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adamics visited Galichnik, a little mountain "village of grass widows," whose men, famed stonecutters and masons, go out to work all over the world, come home for a month in the summer, if they are not too far away. In Montenegro Adamic heard a story which he says illustrates the Montenegrin's two great virtues: A man about to be shot was asked if he had ever been in a worse fix. Yes, he answered, once-"when a man came to see me from afar and I was so poor that I had nothing in the house to offer...
...Meanwhile van der Lubbe, who had written numerous letters from his cell to his family in Leyden, refused to write another after Prosecutor Werner told him he was really going to die.* Just after dawn, Prisoner van der Lubbe was led "without showing the least emotion" out onto the grass of the prison courtyard where he stood with hanging head while his death sentence was read a third time by Supreme Court Justice Wilhelm Bünger. Asked if he had any last words, van der Lubbe muttered...
...looking Robert II, a 37-year-old ruler of vast energy. In his eight years' reign he has spent some $2,000,000 on such improvements as building 1,000 miles of new fences, grubbing 15,000 acres clear of mesquite and chaparral to plant them with Rhodes grass from Africa. He is proudest of his new breed of cattle, the Santa Gertrudis, achieved after many a year of experiments. It is a cross of Indian Brahma cattle, which are resistant to the tropical heat and diseases of southern Texas, and pure-bred shorthorns, one of the great English...
...collectors" who have almost annihilated some species of birds. Dr. Clarence Cottam (U. S. Biological Survey) heightened the birdmen's concern over the decrease in North American waterfowl (see col. 3) by telling them how brant and Canada geese have suffered from the strange disappearance of eel grass during the past three years (TIME...
...under existing law, and on Wednesday last the President announced that the Government is prepared to move in that direction by taking 4,000,000 off the public relief rolls and giving them jobs [see p. 11]. This is the kind of controlled inflation that takes hold at the grass roots...