Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wilt. Two brand-new types of red clover can yield a ton more of hay an acre than the old, once-popular ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved for use all through the U.S. ; this year it has extra importance because it has all but crowded...
...nature lay for me a bed On grassy meadow, field or stone; Let me hold up an unbowed head, Outranking those who shrink and moan...
...Urgency. How could it be so important to battle for a three-by-eight-mile patch of meadow, jungle and coconut grove in an economically worthless island just across the way from nowhere...
...greatest printmakers Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives produced some 8,000 lithographs, of which some 7,500 survive as nostalgic relics of 19th-Century Americana. From the largest private collection of Currier & Ives, owned by Harry T. Peters, Master of Fox Hounds at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club, a volume of reproductions (Doubleday, Doran; $5) has now been published. The color plates are not as good as they might be but the book gives an excellent cross section of the flaming disasters, idyllic farm scenes, sentimental moralities, spanking race horses, political cartoons, Mississippi steamboats and vigorous frontier...
...their big square incisors as they inhale and puffing heir paraboloid checks as they exhale. Not to mention an irritated and sleepless chipmunk blanketing himself under the tail of one of the above snorers, or a wide-eyed fieldmouse slamming a hollow tree behind him after skipping over the meadow in nothing flat. Like Dopey, who would always come running over the bridge fifty yards behind his outfit, there is the duckling that stops to test the temperature with his toe before swimming after the gang, and the gopher who slides down the hill on his fanny while his pals...