Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sympathetic cooperation in Federal agencies dealing with agriculture, and to improve their efficiency by preventing jealousies and duplication of effort. Efforts should be made to strengthen the banks serving farmers, especially by enlarging the national bank system. The activities of the Government in establishing quarantines against animal and plant diseases, and in gathering market and crop information, already valuable, should be improved and extended. The Cooperative Marketing Board (suggested in the Second Report) should be empowered to represent sent the farmers before the Interstate Commerce Commission to secure more favorable freight rates. Administration of the tax law should be undertaken...
That same evening, William Plant, U.S. walker, defeated Ugo Frigerio, Italy's Olympic champion, established a new world's indoor record of 22 min. 6 3/5 sec. for the 5,000 metre walk...
...later. There he won the Boston A. A.'s Two-Mile Special with a time of 9:16 1-5, failing to break any records, despite the fact that in a fit of pique, last week, he announced that he would run the distance in 9 minutes fiat. William Plant, U.S. walker, again defeated Ugo Frigerio, Italian Olympic champion, breaking by 1 1-5 seconds, his own world's record. (12 min. 54 sec.) for the 3,000 metre walk. In the polevault, Laddie (E. E.) Meyers jumped 12 feet 10 5-8 inches, bettering his world's record...
...would be better to plant green ivy about her walls, so that some future poet, wandering alone in nightly musing, may reflect upon her crumbling majesty and write as wrote his master...
...Hill" ivy plant, grown from a slip of the original vine which grew at Charles Dickens' home at Gad's Hill Place, Rochester, England, has been added to the Dickens exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. This plant was loaned by Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Ridgeway of the Dickens Fellowship of Boston in commemoration of Dickens birthday which is today...