Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side. This may possibly apply to any undergraduate feeling that agrees with your editorial. If the other pasture, from a distance, looks greener, could there not be some trust that many members of the Faculty have seen that other pasture closely, and remember very well what it contains besides grass? Far from being cavalier toward the needs of the student the present experiment is an honest and conscientious attempt to satisfy those needs more fully and at the same time avoid some very real difficulties? Some of us perhaps recall too vividly the almost insoluble problems that arose...
Lonely Grave. After the Army pulled out of Fort Yates in 1903, Sitting Bull's grave lay untended under the scraggly grass of the deserted parade ground. Then, last fall, a 78-year-old Sioux patriarch named Clarence Grey Eagle went on the warpath. He had witnessed the great chief's death when he was a boy of 16; when he heard that the grave was to be covered with water from the new Oahe Dam, he hurried indignantly to Mobridge (pop. 3,800), S.Dak. Would the Chamber of Commerce build a memorial, he asked, if he moved...
...breakfast might consist of one dry cracker washed down with cold water and honey; her lunch varied from grass tea and pea soup ("Fit for a king!" he exclaimed, smacking his lips) to a wide assortment of nuts, fruits, vegetable juices and interminable strips of raw carrot...
...employees included the fabulous John Russell coryell, creator of Nick Carter and author of romantic novels signed "Bertha M. Clay" and articles on "the benefits of fasting" under the name "H. Mitchell Whatchet." Another great Macfadden ally was Mother Teats, the Carry Nation of physical culture, who sipped grass tea and fought under the slogan: "Intercourse for Procreation Only...
...simpler Macfadden tenets included the harem skirt, grass-eating, boxing with the feet, having babies without doctors standing on your head to make your hair grow." But all these techniques were useless unless the patient practiced the Master's main belief-"that . . . there is but one disease: impurity of the blood" for which there was but one cure-to stop eating and give the famished body a chance to consume its own diseased tissues. Not that the Master objected to patients purchasing his "Isham's California Waters of Life" for "dissolving and washing away cancer, and curing paralysis...