Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians have adopted the slogan, "We must surpass the capitalistic countries in industrialization." But I cannot believe they will ever surpass the United States in the production of cotton. Your figure of 3,000,000 tons must refer to seed cotton which would amount to around 4,000,000 bales of lint...
...Membership, 120,000. Others: American Farm Bureau Federation, 2,950,000; National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, 800,000; National Cooperative Council, 1,500,000. *The Wallace Family still has a small interest in a firm for producing hybrid seed corn. Wallaces' Farmer and Iowa Homestead (whose poll last week showed Iowa farmers 34% for Roosevelt, 34% for Willkie, 32% undecided) passed out of the Wallace control early in the depression...
...What shall I do? I have let myself go to seed, I've got fat. I'm the kind of woman nobody notices. How can I be a credit to my husband...
Smallest sect reporting was the Friends (Primitive), whose lone congregation had 14 members. Most remarkable sect: the Two -Seed -in -the -Spirit Predestinarian Baptists (16 churches, 201 members), who believe that Adam & Eve were infused with a "good seed" from God, that Eve received a "bad seed" from Satan. Since everyone is born of either a good seed or a bad seed, and nothing can be done about it, this church does no gospel preaching, no missionary work...
...many hamlets that had hummed with life." In the '80s "society had lost its vital interests. . . . In the absence of motives its mind was becalmed." The 'gos were "a day of little faith, the day of the epigoni, the successors, in whom the nineteenth century went to seed." Soon it was time for Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson's "dark tideless floods of nothingness." Soon Poet T. S. Eliot would find Boston "the wasteland of all the modern cities where the dry stone gave no sound of water" while Boston's "learned religiosity evoked...