Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dumdum bullets-and I am certain they are being used-does not affect the Ethiopian warriors, who by tradition are accustomed to all sorts of the most unspeakable barbarity. This country cannot be overcome by mechanized armies. It is remarkable to see thousands of warriors spring from the grass and come from behind rocky hills when a bugle is blown...
...incident was finished by the officers agreeing to lead the pack back across the Municipal course to the Country Club. The cycle whirred into action, jerked ahead, and was away across the grass. Playfair called on his teammates, and ably seconded by Channing, dashed in pursuit. The chase led over weary miles, now the cycle, now the cross country team ahead. Finally, in desperation, the officer pulled up, mopped his brow, and, apparently, confessed his defeat...
...Kansas and the rest of the country. Nationally the Governor is not without potent connections. Last week he was visiting Oilman Frank Phillips on the Phillips ranch near Bartlesville, Okla. Another important friend is John Daniel Miller Hamilton, counsel for the Republican National Committee and organizer of the Grass Roots Conference, who was selected last month to set up the G. O. P.'s Western campaign headquarters in Chicago. Mr. Hearst. Mr. Landon's most voluble backer to date, the Governor has never met. True to the tradition of bashfulness expected of those who seek the nation...
Although the small Hillsdale (Mich.) County Fair offers only $35 for its biggest prize, year after year the best teams of draft horses in the U. S. are sent there to pull. Reason is, the quack grass of Hillsdale's paddock gives heavy horses good footing and ten world's records have been tugged across its surface...
Since 1930 Maintenance men have been diligently pruning trees, painting houses, planting grass seed, washing John Harvard, and picking up papers that this fall the Harvard Yard should appear lovelier than ever before in its colorful history...