Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Result. On the Burma front, a thoughtful soldier wrote to his mother in England: "Don't worry about me, mum. I'll keep my head down." Later hit by fly ing shrapnel, he wrote again: "In the future I'll keep both ends down...
Things are pretty quiet around the White House until Johnny comes march ing home. He quickly changes into his khaki uniform, Sam Browne belt and over seas cap, which are as near to G.I. as regulations allow. (He broods over the fact that he cannot wear regulation buttons, insignia and decorations.) Sometimes he gets in an awkwardly uneven game of ping-pong with his mother, or a swim, but usually he breaks out of doors to climb trees and get all dirty. When this palls he remembers his ambition, and strides down to the guard house to help the soldiers...
...debunking job, The Way Our People Lived includes eleven sober chapters crawl ing with facts (most of them curious) about the day-to-day living habits, laws and institutions of nine American genera tions. Typical chapters: A Day in a Vir ginia Planter's Life; A Puritan Village in 1680; New York in 1008. Some odd ments...
...this machinery is workable, constitutional and noncontroversial, is another demonstration of the plain horse sense of Massachusetts' governor, Leverett Saltonstall. And the fact that it permits a maximum of servicemen to vote is in the let-everyone-speak tradition of New England's time-crusted town meet ing. Massachusetts acts from three centuries' experience of sending her sons to war. War got Massachusetts - and New England - her land from the Indians. War got New England its independence. Now war has given New England a new lease on life...
...careful study of plowing v. other cultivation methods was made on Iowa experimental farms by U.S. and State soil experts. The new methods were disc harrowing (advocated by Faulkner), "lister-ing" and "subsoiling"-all of which loosen the soil without turning it over. The object is to leave on the surface a stubble "beard," both to check erosion and provide decaying organic matter as fertilizer. In the Iowa test these methods: > Produced bigger soybean crops than plowing, slightly smaller corn crops.† > Saved one-third to half of the man and machine power required by plowing. > Reduced soil erosion from...