Word: scrub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Storm clouds scudded low against a livid sky. In the grayness of a November twilight, a long road of sun-bleached pebbles stretched startlingly white across the barren mountain top toward a desolated ledge. The dwarfed branches of scrub oaks rattled against each other in the cold wind, but the two figures progressing toward the ledge had no heed for the night or the wind...
Scant rainfall has been met with American dry farming methods yielding a 25% crop increase on the School's acreage in normal years. Cross breeding with imported strains has improved the native ''scrub'' live stock...
Florida tourists, viewing the Florida scrub from an Oklawaha River steamer, find it picturesque but not enticing. Even most Florida crackers think the scrub too bewilderingly wild to live in. But this impenetrable-seeming wilderness of pine and sand was just suited to Lantry Jacklin's taste. Onetime moonshiner in Ca'lina, he had killed a revenue man and fled to Florida; the scrub seemed the safest place he could find...
...rafted cypress logs down to the sawmill; when there were no more to salvage he made the supreme sacrifice of trying to get a job in a mill. But he was just as pleased when there were no jobs to be had: he would rather have starved in the scrub than eat heartily in a town. Meantime his worthless cousin Cleve had married Kezzy, who would much rather have married Lant, but he would never look her way. Instead he courted a little doll from across the river, saw through her just in time. When there was no other...
...some beautiful punting while the coaches worked on protection for the kicker and on having the ends get down the field as fast as possible. When the Jayvees received the ball in their turn in the informal scrimmage, emphasis was placed on the Varsity wingbacks taking out the scrub ends. Crickard made some excellent catches of kicks by Adams of the Jayees...