Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Working with corn seed that had been exposed to radio-activity in the Bikini bomb tests, Dr. Ernest G. Anderson of the California Institute of Technology found that...
Niemöller's reason: "Hundreds of thousands yield under constant pressure to the temptation to wash their hands of guilt by any conceivable lie or distortion . . . and the newly sown seed of hatred has grown rapidly...
This would still leave the U.S. with plenty of wheat for its own needs: about 255 million bushels for processed foods, 23 million for seed, up to 177 million for livestock feed, and 150 million for the precautionary carry-over into the next crop year. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson hoped to cut livestock consumption enough to boost exports even higher-possibly to 500 million bushels...
While Cramer's methods are a far cry from these of the fabulous thirties, the seed is definitely there. Cramer's office falls within the faculty's definition of a "commercial tutoring school" by (1) giving "assistance in interpreting course reading . . . to students who have not first houestly attempted to do their own work," and by (2) being a place where "notes purporting to condense course lectures and (or) reading may be secured...
...snatch out mesquite. He supplemented this with a "rooter plow" that lifted up a strip of land, killed the mesquite roots and dropped it back with the grass undisturbed. He then turned his hand to grass. Bob's father had brought in South African Rhodes grass. Bob took seed from the best plants, and perfected the strain. Later he developed a fine strain of yellow-beard grass. As one cattleman put it: "Bob developed a breed of cattle to grow fat on grass, then developed the grass to make them...