Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time the paper looked into the case of the Renshaws, they were doing well again. Wallaces' Farmer ("Henry A. Wallace, Editor, on leave of absence as Secretary of Agriculture") noted with pleasure that a Government loan plus plenty of pluck had enabled Mr. Renshaw to have his cancer treated, buy more livestock, retrieve his farm. "The Lord helps those who help themselves, and we have tried to make the best of what we have," said Mrs. Renshaw...
...Huey's feud against "lyin' newspapers" (still carried on by Brother Earl Kemp Long, now running to succeed himself as Governor) exploded in a court order for contempt proceedings against the New Orleans Item-the same Item that once offered Huey a job. Marshall Ballard's paper got in trouble when it used some ugly words in connection with some of Long's followers. But the Item was only saying openly what other New Orleans papers have said by implication for years...
...tassels at the top of the stalk; the eggs lurk at the base of the silk on each ear. In ordinary "open-pollinated" corn, fertilization occurs at random, the sperm-bearing pollen being carried to the silk by the wind. For inbreeding, the tassels and silk are protected by paper bags until maturity, and the plants are then self-pollinated by hand. These inbred strains become highly uniform. Finally, promising strains are crossed to combine advantages-long ears, full-kerneled ears, resistance to drought, heat, wind, insects. Since the characters of a hybrid are not always predictable from those...
...Lignin plastics and vanillin made from sulphite liquor, onetime waste product of the wood-pulp paper industry...
...Louder, Browder!" yelled the crowd outside. Someone led a long Yale cheer for Browder that drowned out his speech. Someone else dumped a pail of water from the roof. The crowd chanted the famed Undertaker's Song. Soon paper bags and firecrackers began to pop. An old lady rushed up to a policeman shrieking: "Disband this group of ruffians...