Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Insect Irruptions. Hoffmann & Linduska want no one to think that DDT is foolproof. If used incorrectly, they concede that it can cause major trouble Heavy doses (5 lbs. or more per acre) might poison birds and small mammals and cause insect "irruptions." Aphids (plant lice) sometimes multiply disastrously when too...
The critic for the News Chronicle raised a lone voice of dissent: '"Forgive me dear. I can't cry,' said the Salesman's wife over his grave . . . Forgive me, Paul Mum, but I can't cry either." The driest eyes of all, however, were those...
Since Gehring never grows mint on one field more than two years in a row, he is still a big potato grower-in fact, Indiana's biggest. His potato crop this year will gross an estimated $700,000. All told, his 5,800-acre farm, run like a factory...
Though liquor sales were already down about 20% from last year, other distillers tried to hold their price line, insisting that taxes, the biggest item (over 50%) in the cost of liquor, would have to come down before prices could yield much more.
It was in order to achieve this plan, Author Balchin believes, that Cesare schemed and wheedled troops from the French and raised his private horde of Swiss and Italian bandits. While his satiated father sat back weakly on his throne (some historians think, on the contrary, that Borgia senior was...