Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boilermakers, riveters, mechanics who spent last Independence Day weekend at Malvern. Scheduled for this week is Malvern's first retreat for young boys, to be followed by a midweek retreat for physicians & surgeons. Old retreatants and new keep abreast of Malvern doings by reading the Malvern Mustard Seed, founded by Logan Bullitt, dress-shop owner and cousin of William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R., and of Episcopalian Archdeacon James Fry Bullitt of the Pennsylvania diocese...
Lint Land. Before the Crop Board could be locked up for its secret ciphering last week, before field estimators and picked farmers could furnish the figures with which it arrived at its estimate, some 30,000,000 acres of farm land had to be plowed, harrowed and seeded in that area of the continental U. S. where the growing season from frost to frost is at least seven months. Planting started, as it does each season, in Southern Texas in late winter. From there it rolled north with the sun on an ever widening front until the last seed...
...founding of Harvard College marked the beginning of higher education in America, it is only fitting for the government to play some official part in the festivities. The seed which the Puritans planted in 1636 has grown and blossomed, so that not just at Cambridge but all over the country is a group of universities that forms one of the strongest bulwarks of free government. Despite the temporary encroachment of petty politicians, bent on perverting the true function of education for purposes of propaganda and personal aggrandisement, democratic government is unlikely to land on the rocks for good as long...
...swamp where the Vixen bore her litter lived one of them, an Indian trapper. No sport, he killed for his living. But he accounted for fewer foxes than the local hunt, whose master was the hard-drinking widower Cap'n, squire of a plantation falling to seed almost as swiftly as himself. Of the Vixen's litter, two died in traps, one was captured, one run to death by hounds while she was still a cub. That left only one, the strongest and canniest of the lot. Through a long round of seasons he added to his foxy...
...this fantasy than the Germans. ... We had been dragged into the War, for whose outbreak we were exactly as guiltless, or as guilty, as other peoples. . . . That peace which was intended to be the final stone laid on the cover of the Tomb of War developed into dragons' seed for new struggles...