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Word: seeding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salesman. In Philadelphia, the Better Business Bureau hunted an elusive peddler who sold tired lawnmower-pushers seed for strictly "two-inch grass." Research. At Troy, N.Y., an experimenting biologist proved to his own satisfaction that the larger a goldfish's eyes, the less it sees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 7, 1941 | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Novelist Kathleen Norris, First America Firster, hasn't convinced her husband, Novelist Charles G. Norris (Salt, Brass, Bread, Seed). Last week he came out for all-out aid to Britain and an immediate declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 23, 1941 | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...bill to collect and publish monthly statistics on cottonseed, peanuts, copra, sesame seed, babassu nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Lost Art of Economy | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Wishing Senators a Happy Easter and an ever-normal granary, Hybrid-Seed Grower Henry Wallace presented each of them with a nice box of sweet-corn seed-for planting April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...locusts John the Baptist ate are not bugs, but the flat seed pods of the carob tree-which are also the husks fed to the swine and the Prodigal Son. They can now be bought in the markets of Manhattan's lower East Side as "St. John's bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Biblical Botany | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

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