Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across New England and northern New York, which had been luxuriating in an early thaw, the slushy windrows stiffened and the seed went back to sleep as the storm rolled over on its way to sea. But 750 miles south, in Charleston, S.C., people shed their coats and wondered what had got into winter. Charleston's thermometers stood at a record 75° above...
...D.P.s, mostly of Dutch extraction, will be carried (2,000 at a time) to Paraguay. There they will find two flourishing colonies settled in the late '20s by Mennonite refugees from Russia and Canada. They will be supplied by the Mennonite Central Committee with farmland, tools and seed with which to take up again their simple, religious lives...
...blowed an awful sigh, and says he, 'This is a wicked and a perverse generation of vipers, young man.' [But] that shovel-shaped underlip of his jist fell outwards like the fallin door of a coal stove, and he upsot the gourd inside of his teeth. I seed the mark of the truck agoing down his throat jist like a snake travelin through a wet sausage gut. He smelt into the gourd a good long smell, turned up his eyes, and said, 'Barm of life...
...Laubach has been more interested in planting the seed and getting results than in getting the credit, but some of us who know what obstacles he had to overcome . . . would like to have it known where this splendid accomplishment began...
...cells grow for a day or so, "eating" the sugar and acid. They grow in isolation, uninfluenced by the complex substances which would normally reach them from the oat seed. Professor Thimann can experiment on them, and know what he is doing...