Word: mattocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MATTOCK-James Stevens-Knopf ($2.50). Another chapter of the national epic...
With the fortitude of men who have sown for other men's reaping the greens-gang of Oakmont Country Club (Pittsburgh) last week laid away mower, mattock and weeding knife. Their work was ready for its demolition. "One of the most difficult golf courses in the world" lay clipped, combed and manicured for the qualifying salvos the National Amateur Championship...
...whose work is in the earth, have stood to the defense of the cold lady of Heaven. They have declared that seeds sown in the moon's first quarter grow more quickly than those planted in the dark of the moon. They have averred it often, foot on mattock, few but children and naturals believing them. Last week, their contentions were upheld by an English scientist, one Elizabeth S. Semmens. Working under the auspices of the Bedford College for Women, London, she proved that the growth of plants was nourished by moonshine, which is no more than polarized light...