Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gold is the label, red and black the hinged cardboard box. Inside, recipients of this Christmas package will find two bestsellers: a King James Bible in imitation leather, zippered open and shut with a plastic ball containing a mustard seed;* a red and gold imitation leather copy of The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Price of this Treasury of Faith: $6.95. "There is no substitute for the Bible," writes Dr. Peale on the box, but it is clear which book he expects people to read first. "I hope that readers will be encouraged," he adds...
...Britain, Canada, Australia, have poured in capital and know-how, while recipient nations have exchanged such experts and such know-how as they have, e.g., India has sent four aeronautical engineers to Indonesia; Singapore is teaching timber grading to a Nepalese trainee; two Japanese rice physiologists are scattering seed in Ceylon...
...Sullivans' tenement apartment was in a part of Harlem that was already going to seed. Ed's twin, who was small and puny next to his larruping brother, died in his first year. The dead twin still looms symbolically in Ed's imagination. Whenever he was whaled by his father or switched by the nuns at his parochial school, Ed would sob passionately that everything would have been different "if only Danny were here." Even today Ed mystically attributes his excess of energy to some supernatural source of supply fed him by the dead twin...
...Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution," prepared by eleven prominent men, including Robert M. Hutchins and G. A. Borgese of the University of Chicago. Published in 1948 complete with President, Federal Convention, Supreme Court, and a Chamber of guardians, this so-called "Chicago Draft" was intended only as a seed that might "take a thousand years to grow...
...Department scientists reported another breakthrough with another feed grain: the flat-leafed, tall-stalked sorghum that waves in many a dry field in the Great Plains. Within five years most of the more than 10 million acres now planted to grain sorghum will be switched to the new hybrid seed, thus raise sorghum output by 20% to 40% on the same land...