Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sermon on the Mount created a hilltop grove, shepherds and their flock, a wide and crowded harbor and a distant town, all with a little ink and broad watery washes. Peter Paul Rubens' delicately tinted watercolor of a farmyard was as tender and vivid as April grass. Thomas Gainsborough's charcoal sketches showed that he could read the face of a field as surely as a human expression...
...appalling how many scientifically qualified people have been victimized by that goat. The fact is that the goat's digestive system and odor are biologically unique and not to be compared with normal human digestive processes or odors . . . The action of green grass has no more to do with the action of processed chlorophyll than the action of coal tar has to do with the well-known coaltar derivative aspirin. One would not expect coal miners to be free of headaches because they inhale coal dust. Nor should anyone . . . expect a grass-eating goat to be free of odor...
...Hands. Troubled by the fact that his cotton plants had to be constantly hoed to keep them from being choked by wild grass, Stahmann built up a flock of 25,000 geese and found that they cleaned out the weeds just as well as Mexican hoe hands, who were hard to hire. Not only did the geese find their own food and enrich the soil with fertilizer, but when the cotton crop was harvested they could be sold. But they were not popular. Reason: high price...
...Meeting in Denver, the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools proudly reported that 8,000 local citizens' committees have been organized in the past five years-a vast new grass-roots movement working for the improvement of the nation's schools...
...some instances, however, this technique is quite effective. A train slowly putting its way from the back ground toward the camera, a group of men climbing an embankment on top of which sits the camera, a lion moving toward the camera through a field of tall grass these scenes utilize three dimension in a way to make it more than another fad, but until the industry can control this new technique, Bwana Devil will be mercy the first in a cervices of audience sensations...