Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, which has managed to survive a cemetery with a floodlighted duck pond, Mickey Cohen and the tribal rites of Hollywood, seemed to be taking the hot rods in stride. The smartest thing to do was keep off the streets after dark...
...ceasing campaign to capture the public's attention, and stab to the psychological soft spots of men & women. They appealed to fear ("Even your best friends won't tell you"), to snobbery ("Men of Distinction"), to romance ("She's lovely, she's engaged, she uses Pond's"). They spoke in euphemisms, wrapped like cotton around the harsh facts of life, and invented dread new diseases (B.O., Office Hips, Halitosis). They found that endorsements by real people, from tobacco auctioneers to movie stars, were astoundingly successful sales plugs. ("Fifty million women a week see movies," explained...
Among the men who make them convincing is tall, bald Perry Wilson, a 60-year-old ex-architect who joined the museum staff when his business went to pot in 1934. Last week, in a secluded hall just back of the battling moose, Wilson was drawing a pond and trees in charcoal on the curved back of an empty display case. "Half a dozen beavers are going in here," he said. "One of them will have just come out of the water, and one will be gnawing a branch-to bring out the teeth...
Richards cleared the land of trees, used his engineer's training to build it up with chemical fertilizers. He rigged pipes through it, brought in two 100-h.p. pumps to sprinkle it with 1,000 gallons of water a minute from a nearby pond. His only cost was gasoline for the pumps, labor to move the sprinklers, a total of only $10 to $15 per acre a season. This year, when drought withered the crops of thousands of New England farmers, Richards' well-watered acres flourished...
...made. A Lambarene colleague reports that when a grapefruit was brought to Schweitzer as he worked late at night, he would always drop a spoonful of the juice on the floor beside him for the ants. "Look at my ants," he would say. "Just like cows around a pond...