Word: seeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retired she announced that she was going to farm and farm she did. She bought 1,600 wheat acres in Colby, Kans., made them pay until last summer when the crops were blown out of the ground. The 3,000 bushels left she was shrewd enough to save for seed, got $1 per bushel...
...Pratt Family, prolific seed of the late famed Charles Pratt, co-founder of Standard Oil Co.. held its annual Christmas reunion, as it has done for nearly 40 years. Some 120 of Charles Pratt's chil dren, grandchildren, their cousins, aunts, and in-laws assembled for buffet supper at the Manhattan home of Herbert Lee Pratt, one of Charles's five sons, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York and Socony-Vacuum Corp. Among the guests: the George Dupont Pratts (art patron), the Frederic Bayley Pratts (president of famed Pratt Institute in Brooklyn), the Charles...
...Headline-of-the-week from the New York Evening, Post: LUST SEED SOWN, COPELAND'S VIEW...
...afraid to do it." Four-five years was a long time: three had been spent on the Glimpse, and then Eph, and Roger, and Sam had wrecked the sloop Marie Elise. The Nahuas had been hospitable. The English, said the old men, help one fight and leave the seed of warriors. The witch-doctors had been unable to save poor Sam, but Eph and Roger became chieftains and left the seed. Life was pleasant: Nahuan wine was tasty, honors were plentiful, women were silent and prolific. Roger, however, found everything in this Carribean land maddening to his touch, lukewarm...
...cotton seed (per ton) for the hand-to-mouth citizenry whose domestic economy has brought them scarcely enough to run their 1927 automobiles since...