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...North, sometimes makes the ground heave under the installations, but cannot stop the refinery from turning out an annual 320,000 barrels of oil products. In July permafrost is also a foot to three feet below Mrs. Mackenzie's garden, but cannot stop her either. "We scatter the seeds," she explained cheerfully, "and when it gets warm enough, they grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Pioneers Wanted | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...Scatter pins will enjoy renewed popularity this year to dress up cottons and linens. They can be purchased in sets, but it's usually more fun to buy them separately and arrange original combinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feminine Fashions Flower With 'Scoop' Necklines, Beachcoats, Straw Corsets, Other Odd Offerings | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

Since he has promised the Canadian government that no adult musk ox will be killed in the process, the job of oxnapping promises rich yields in exercise and excitement. At the moment, Teal plans to release a set of dogs to scatter the musk-ox herd. Expert ropers will then try to lasso and tie up the adults, and after that a group of strong young men will run down, hog-tie and crate the eight lucky calves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ENGLAND: How Now, Brown Cow? | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...close friends at college was William T. Reid, Jr. '01, former football and baseball star and one-time football coach. Last year Smith requested that when he died Reid should scatter his ashes into "a river flowing into the sea" while reading Tennyson's "Crossing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University's Chances for Recluse's Fortune Vanish as Heirs Are Found | 1/26/1952 | See Source »

...only child, Ann Francis portrays all the scatter-brained qualities of a college graduate. Heading for a career in industrial design, she plans to go to Switzerland. Then within three minutes she falls in love ("like I was drowning") with one of her professors, elopes, and spends the rest of the film getting mad at him. Meanwhile, her parents and the professor's family chase after the couple to prevent marriage and, in the end, encourage it. Very confusing indeed, but never before have two people eloped twice in the same picture...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/10/1952 | See Source »

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