Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many readers as the Kudzu Kid's Atlanta Constitution (circ. 187,000), Publisher Anderson's case for his farm editor would carry more weight. It is nevertheless true that Sue Myrick, born & raised on an oldtime cotton plantation, knows the answers to many Southern questions.* Her pet promotion is soil conservation, and she has done much to popularize the Blue Lupine, as Cope has the Kudzu...
...there was little more than wheatfields beyond Western Avenue." He found that the Los Angeles story was a rediscovery of his hometown. For Ed Rees, a native of Delaware, it was a firsthand discovery. After talking to architects, sociologists, county supervisors, meteorologists, etc. he found that some of his pet theories about...
Jovial Dr. Alfred Bilmanis, Latvian Minister to the U.S., had been a pet of Washington society. In his comfortable 17th Street home, he loved to relax over a mellow wine and a fine cigar, converse in any of six languages. But when he attended formal diplomatic parties, as he did frequently, he became a thorny symbol. The State Department had never recognized the armed annexation of his country by Russia. Russian diplomats bitterly resented his presence at White House functions, coolly declined invitations on the grounds of illness if he was to be present. "Bilmanitis" became a Washington gag. When...
Warming himself last week in the glow of his fireworks, Leonidoff was already hatching new spectacles to keep the theater's 6,200 seats filled. One of his pet projects: a cavalcade of the building of the West, opening with a raging forest fire and closing with the San Francisco skyline rising gold-plated out of the horizon...
Late in 1943, Masao Mimatsu, postmaster and amateur volcanologist of Sobetsu, a small town in southwestern Hokkaido, was working on routine papers. Once in a while he looked out the window at his pet volcano, intermittently active Mount Usu, two miles away. On Dec. 31 he heard a mighty rumbling and the ground began to tremble. Shouting "Ji-shin!" (earthquake), he rushed outdoors and looked again at Mount Usu. The tall black volcano showed no signs of life...