Word: hessians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ignorant of American history, Herr Hitler overlooked the Hessian mercenaries whom George Washington routed in the Battle of Trenton...
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...surveys are conducted to find out how they survived the winter. Reports this year were far from heartening. Grasshoppers, No. 1 bane of Northwestern grain farmers, got through a mild winter in enormous numbers. Chinch bug mortality in the Midwest was only 3%. In Indiana and Kansas 93% of Hessian flies emerged unscathed from their underground puparia. Millions of Mormon crickets came safely through in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming. Montana. Bitter cold in the East caused high mortality among some destructive insects, but the Japanese beetle was protected by heavy snows and promised to be dangerous. Special funds allocated this year...
...Prudence Kirkland (Peggy Conklin) at Westville, Conn, in the winter of 1778. bundling turns out to be a most unromantic procedure. Like fishing or travel, the idea is more exciting than the act. Or so finds Max Christmann (Tonio Selwart, an ingratiating actor of the Francis Lederer type), a Hessian deserter to the cause of Liberty & Equality. Mistress Prudence, having invited him to bed because firewood is dear, climbs in with her clothes on, sits there with the blanket wrapped about her in the manner of a lap robe and, as a final guarantee of innocence, pulls down a centreboard...
...Hessian Hills parents meet fortnightly for discussion, monthly for work about the school. At their last meeting they questioned Dr. George Sylvester Count's of Teachers College about his proposal that school teachers "indoctrinate" their pupils with liberalism. Of the same intellectual bent if not in the same wage group, the Hessian Hills parents contribute more to their children's teaching than most parents...