Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potato famine provided a dramatic opportunity for the first suggestion. The scientists offered the Indians fertilizer, bug killer and a better strain of potato seed. The "medicines for the soil," as Cruz desc-ibed them, grew potatoes four to eight times bigger than Vicos had been producing. "Kcmi alii, kemi alii," said Cruz-''Very good, very good...
...Costly Seed. Texas Democrat Robert Poage, a peanut supporter, tried to put the blame on the candymakers. Waving a peanut bar over his head, Poage cried: "Mr. Chairman, here is a candy bar I just purchased within the last five min utes. This is the only peanut bar you can buy in the cloakroom. This peanut bar weighs, according to its wrapper, one and one-eighth ounces. You can make more than 14 bars out of one pound of peanuts, if you made them all out of peanuts." Poage slowly unwrapped the bar, continued darkly: "As a matter of fact...
...there is not one thing in this country that is basic." When Texas Democrat Omar Burleson pleaded for the peanut, he left hardly a dry eye in the House. To understand the situation, moaned Burleson, "you would truly have to know the story from the time a costly peanut seed was placed in the ground until it was finally consumed by a school child in Chicago...
...booklets may well guide as many parents as children, showing Daddy and Mother coping wisely with such family crises as Mike's TV-induced nightmares and Tish's embezzlement of 15?. When Mike discovers a sprouting potato in the kitchen, his mother explains to him: " 'A seed grows into a plant like the plant the seed comes from.' 'Yes, but why?' asked Mike. 'That's the way the world is, Mike. It is God's world and God's world is dependable,' said his mother." (On the other hand...
Donald A. Scott 2L, seeded first, and Ben Hockscher '57, second seed, first man on the varsity squad, load the field. Scott, who won the tournament last year, played number one on the Princeton team before coming to the Law School. Hockscher was runner-up in the '54 competition...