Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politics is a muddy road full of pot-holes. It is fraught with frustration and despair. It demands equal discretion in choosing enemies as well as friends. It subjects a man to the taunts and arrows of malicious opponents. Even political success reaps its own bitter harvest--jealousy...
Please accept the sincere thanks of four Scandinavian converts for the splendid article on Bishop Sheen [TIME, April 14] . . . Would that he could preach in Sweden, Norway and Denmark; what a harvest is there! Though we are few, others are gradually returning to "Their Father's House"-and perhaps one day there will again be a flourishing Catholic life in the Scandinavian countries. Thank you, and God bless...
...hung on easily in the laboratory; sometimes nature has to be called in to help with "biosynthesis." In a fifth-floor laboratory atop a pseudo-Gothic building on the University of Chicago campus, intense researchers are growing common foxglove-in Pyrex cylinders filled with radioactive carbon dioxide. They harvest the leaves and make radioactive digitalis...
...merchandise. When its twisted metallic streamers, designed to decorate theater marquees, blossomed on the nation's highways as filling-station art, the stolid firm took it as a matter of course. Then a Middle Western mechanic reported that for the first time he was able to harvest a full crop from the strawberry patch next to his filling station. He gave all the credit to sunlight glinting off the bright streamers and frightening marauding birds...
Because of the rich intelligence harvest that it reaped from captured Japanese diaries, the U.S. Army in World War II became highly diary-conscious. It vigorously emphasized the traditional order forbidding front-line soldiers and officers to keep diaries. One of the men enforcing this order was granite-chinned Major General Robert W. Grow, who ably led the U.S. 6th Armored Division from Utah Beach to Leipzig...