Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rowdy guest night at nearby Larkhill Artillery School, four 20-year-old second lieutenants were seized with an inspiration to improve on antiquity. Next morning, for the first time in 1,000 years, the rays of the rising sun discovered a new glory in Stonehenge. A glistening coat of green paint instead of dull lichens covered ancient dolmens. Atop great menhirs sat shining chamber pots...
...Back in 1913, a young undertaker named John A. Maxwell played golf with two companions on the Raritan Valley Country Club course, Somerville, N. J. As they approached the tenth green, a thunderstorm broke. A forked tongue of lightning licked the fairway, kicked all three players on to their backs, ripped one golf bag down the middle. None of the players was injured. Last week, on the same fairway of the same golf course, in the corresponding week of the corresponding month, at the same time of day (about 3:15 p.m.) Golfer Maxwell was struck down and killed...
Over 1,000,000 families in the rural South eat nothing but salt pork, corn meal and molasses. Their members are frequent victims of that painful deficiency disease, pellagra, with its attendant diarrhea, dementia, dermatitis. Physicians have known for nearly 25 years that small amounts of green vegetables and milk will forestall the disease. But still pellagra continues. In its advanced stages it has been considered incurable, since the patients are unable to ingest the necessary kinds of food...
...wearing high heels." While a large gallery gaped and tittered, Actress Lawrence stepped up to the tee of the 184-yd. eighth, removed her shoes, borrowed a spoon, took a healthy swat at the ball. It fell short. She took another, got closer. The third ball plopped on the green, rolled 5 ft. 6 in. from the cup. Asked her handicap. Golfer Lawrence explained: "My handicap is the ball...
Foreign and domestic capital poured in and sugar operations mushroomed to enormous proportions-80% of Cuba's entire industry. Sugar refineries, steaming night and day, burned anything they could lay their hands on, even green trees. Cuba's legislature passed a law allowing crude oil destined for the sugar industry to come in duty free, but the demand for fuel was insatiable and oil companies began to look into the old possibility of a big native supply from which pipe lines could be run directly to the refineries...