Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...iron sheets with the 6-in. space between them filled by tightly packed sawdust. Only the south side of its roof is of glass. Heat & light are provided by ten 500-watt lamps which hang close over the plants in double rows and can be raised as the plants grow higher. A thermostat turns on the lights if the temperature drops below 62°, turns them off at 68°. Even a little sunshine keeps the insulated structure warm enough to keep the lights off. On the average, the plants receive about four hours of artificial illumination per day. Under...
...Byrns is not the man his fierce eyebrows make him out to be. Senator Borah, whose eyebrows are equally bushy, licks his thumb and smooths them down to polite dimensions. Speaker Byrns lets his grow wild and in so doing they belie him. For 40 years, ever since as a country boy he talked his way into the State legislature at Nashville, he has put a friendly arm around the shoulders of his constituents and told them they "ought to be comin' up to see" him oftener. In 1908 he got himself elected to Congress in place of Nashville...
...machines, called the "Universal Pull-Model" which will be demonstrated this season and put into production next year. Probable price: $995 f. o. b. factory. Estimated operation cost per acre of cotton (including repairs, fuel, labor, interest): 98?. Planters have declared that with such machines they could grow cotton at a profit even if the price dropped below...
...unsurpassed influence in developing among the American people a love for great music." Excessively modest was the hero's reply: He felt like a beggar made king for a day. He owed everything to his father "who emigrated from the land he loved so that his children should grow up in a free country...
...with desperate fervor, gave all her interest and every spare moment to its passionately serious meetings, its Spartan week-end jaunts. Her ambition and ability soon made her a leader, and at a national gathering her girls' group was judged the best in Germany. But even Youth Movements grow up. Leader Linke fell in love with a handsome fellow-Youth, went on walking trips with him that remained platonic but caused dissension in the ranks. She resigned, went to Hamburg to another job and a new beginning...