Word: seeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Profits from bestsellers help to finance deserving books for a highly specialized reader. Poetry books, such as Theodore Spencer's "An Acre in the Seed," do well to sell 1000 copies. Technical hooks that are expensive to produce, as "Early New England Potters and Their Wares" by Lura Woodside Watkins, must have a high retail price. Some of them are subsidized as well...
...that Mrs. Fairless can buy for as little as 3½? a pound ... If you lived among the cliff dwellers of New York City, and if you wanted a little potting soil to put around your geranium plants on your window sill, you could buy it at your neighborhood seed store for 7? a pound . . . Steel is literally cheaper than dirt...
...past and Nehru's wondrous future. Sitting in a specially built, galvanized iron-sheeted dining hall, they ate Tandon's strict orthodox menu: rice, wheat pancakes, lentils, sweets, vegetables, buttermilk. Shuffling around the ten-stall "village uplift" exhibition they gaped at tractors, bulldozers and an improved oil seed crusher. They gasped at a lecture on artificial insemination (illustrated with plaster models) and were dazzled by shimmering neon advertisements. They saw posters on the evils of drink; noted the stall which sold cottage-made, unrefined palm juice sugar, and listened when Tandon declared that "Cow protection is part...
...well in many parts of the U.S. The trees in an experimental plot near Roanoke, Va. are now 14 years old, and appear to have all the desirable qualities. Besides resisting blight, they produce good nuts and good straight trunks for timber. Best of all, they come true to seed, and are actually seeding themselves beyond the experimental plot, just like native trees. The only part of the chestnut belt where they have not done well is New England...
...past decade, such loutish antics have kept Truth or Consequences among the top-ranking radio shows. Last week, sponsored by Philip Morris, hearty, toupee-wearing M.C. Ralph Edwards moved his slapstick-and-bladder show onto television (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). "This is just the genesis, the little seed," he boasted of his first TV performance. "I have the feeling that, within the first half-dozen shows, we'll get into the top five TV programs...