Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lotus merits no such rapt attention from Professor Ohga, who has been studying the genus for 30 years and is known in Japan as "Dr. Lotus." But this plant, lovingly tended by the doctor's good friend, 69-year-old Soy Saucemaker Moemon Ihara, had sprouted from a seed found in a nearby peat bog, imbedded in a neolithic canoe. Counting on 100 years to form each foot of the 15 feet of peat that covered the seed, and adding 500 years for the layer of topsoil above the peat, Dr. Lotus calculated that his seed was some...
Married. Mrs. John J. Raskob, 67, widow of the Manhattan financier and onetime (1928-32) chairman of the Democratic National Committee; and John P. Corcoran, fiftyish, grass-seed executive, who formerly managed Raskob's Maryland farm; she for the second time, he for the first; in Tucson, Ariz...
...June 30, TIME had reported that the radio section of the Associated Manufacturers of Electrical Supplies had disparaged the widely used term, broadcasting, which, they pointed out, has to do with the "sowing of seed of material substances," recommended that the word be officially abandoned in favor of radiocasting...
...finest of seed--that of fellowship true...
...contrast, Caroline Ivey's The Family is reassuring in its pedestrian normality. Novelist Ivey has turned to that familiar Southern fixture, a genteel family going gracefully to seed. Into the Olmstead household comes a Northern son-in-law, brilliant, restless and unhappy. Though he loves his wife, he cannot fit into her family or persuade her to break away from it. Why should they always be kissing and hugging, reminiscing about adolescent trivia, delighting in the vast disorder of their house, and still honoring the obsolete cult of the Southern Lady? Most of The Family is a quarrel...