Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dillon, head of the banking firm of Dillon, Read & Co., does not believe in letting the grass grow under his feet. Within a week after he had purchased the Dodge Brothers...
...student yawns, stretches his legs, and reaches for a time-table. "Philadelphia and New York ho-hum--Bermuda, Hot Springs, Pinehurst--let's see." Oh why worry about trains and solid facts. The sun beams geniably, gentle zephyrs blow, the old elms are putting out new buds, and the grass in front of Sever is greener then eyer before. The brisk concourse on the walks has changed to idle groups of strollers who playfully feed the squirrels and resent the bell's last call to classes...
...Grass. A little group of camera- armed explorers went into exile to get this picture. After extraordinary adventures and tribulations, they returned with their story−one of the most extraordinary that has been told on the screen−in celluloid strips...
Miles, nomads, fodder, tribes, herds, mountains, GRASS...
...always thinking up something important when not engaged in founding restaurants, have decided at last to restore the Parthenon. It's really a wonder they didn't do it earlier, before some of the pieces were lost. But what with the general wear and tear, the growth of grass and American tourist travel, many of the stones have become either missing or mutilated. Its been so long too--oh, almost three hundred and fifty years now--that things have just been drifting along in Greece. It may seem unsympathetic to make any strong statement of protest against the project...