Word: harrower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Wilkes Jones, advised treating the soil itself. Upon examination he found that it consisted of nonporous and nonabsorbent substances. To rectify this, to get a soil that was ''friable, moist and mellow," he had ten tons of secret minerals churned into the soil by a special harrow and hopper-spreader. By September, after two months of semiweekly treatments, Agronomist Jones felt the best possible moisture control had been obtained. The surface, he proudly puffed, was "like an Oriental...
...described, and later the important part which he played in heckling the French Revolutionists. The first indication that the author's Percy Blakeney is going to turn out to be just what movie-goers of today think him, comes in the narrative during Percy's first day at Harrow, in his twelfth year...
...spring of 1853, just as the Big Ditch is freed of ice, Dan Harrow (Henry Fonda), a big, quiet farm boy, signs on as a mule driver for the summer. In Hennessy's strictly moral canal hotel at Rome (immoral canal hotels could be identified by their white chimneys), Dan meets Molly Larkins (June Walker). She is a pretty minx born to the Erie water. The conflict between "notional" Molly and simple Dan is the traditional one between water folk and land folk...
This week U. S. readers got a real treat when for once they were offered a book that would neither harrow their feelings, shame their social consciences, shock their susceptibilities nor arouse their baser impulses. Worlds apart from the concerns of their everyday lives, Seven Gothic Tales opens a window on a refreshingly different world-the world of "Isak Dinesen." Like their romantically pseudonymous author, these seven stories are romantic, but with a difference. Each has the depth of a well-conceived novel. Removed from the U. S. reader in time (the 19th Century) and place (Italy, France, Germany, Denmark...
Another scholarship plan for British lads was announced by Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville School (N. J.). A onetime crew coach and Latin teacher at Yale, Dr. Abbott was born in Halifax, educated at Oxford. Three students will be selected annually from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Shrewsbury, the schools which Dr. Abbott believes mold British opinion-makers. They will spend holidays with their U. S. schoolmates, will take a special course of Dr. Abbott's devising: U. S. History, physics and chemistry, higher mathematics and modern languages (which some pedagogs think are taught better in U. S. secondary...