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Word: seeding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sharma, like pressagents the world over, stated his case in soaring sentences. "I am proud that I can trace my dynasty back a thousand years," he said, "even back to the Creator. That is because of the chastity of our women. The ground has always been pure and the seed has been good. We believe Hinduism has existed for so many thousands of years because of the purity of our blood. The world today is threatened with imminent destruction, mainly because of the unchastity of women all over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Anti-Vivisection | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Farmer Hans Schweiger explained his position last week: "My farm will yield 6,000 marks this year, from which I'll have to deduct 500 for taxes, 500 for the blacksmith, and 1,000 for seed and fertilizer. That leaves me 4,000. A pair of shoes for my wife costs me 800. I consider myself lucky when some city fellow brings me a few nails or machinery to trade in for bread and potatoes." Said Farmer Friedrich Sticht grimly: "Before the farmers starve, every single city dweller will starve first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Lord Pakenham's Prayers | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...cavalcade of retainers and richly housed palfreys, nor by gorgeous apparel, that the heretics win proselytes. It is by zealous preaching, by apostolic humility, by austerity. Zeal must be met by zeal, humility by humility, false sanctity by real sanctity, preaching falsehood by preaching truth. Sow the good seed as the heretics sow the bad. Cast off those sumptuous robes. Send away those brightly caparisoned palfreys. Go barefoot, without purse or scrip, like the apostles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caesar with Palm Branch | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...drove to a Morelos seed-corn farm to learn about the war on corn pests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Aleman's Week | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...party goer, he spends most of his off time there with his attractive wife, Vera, and their two redheaded children, Bill Jr., at 13 already taller than his dad, and Patricia, 18. The farm has a chicken house (85 Rhode Island reds), a three-hole golf course gone to seed (Patterson is considered by his friends one of the world's worst golfers), and a small lake stocked with bass, blue gills and crappies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Raven Among Nightingales | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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