Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lodges, a restaurant and a couple of stores waited for customers, but there was no snow. Seibert hired an Indian snow dancer and lo, it snowed. In later years, whenever there was little snow, he fired old railway flares packed with silver iodide into the clouds to seed them. "My three kids thought I was crazy," says Seibert, "but when it's not snowing you do almost anything...
...NCAA soccer pairings released yesterday for the New England division of the national tournament, Harvard, ranked number one, is slated to face the University of Rhode Island, the fourth seed, in the first round Monday in Cambridge. In the other first round match for New England, second-slated Brown faces the University of Connecticut, rated third, in Providence on Monday. The winners move on to the New England finals and the champion advances to meet the New York region victor...
...been spilt this past decade on the question of who was or was not a "first-generation" Abstract Expressionist. Since America is apt to regard its artists as either seed bulls or vicarious aristocrats, the squabbles over lineage tend to be obsessive. But the historicist view of priorities has its shallows. Several fine painters who came to maturity in the 1950s have been blurred by the filter of Who Did What First...
...undefeated Elis, and Fordham, which has lost only to Yale, are playing number one and number two seed...
...rising costs and depressed prices because of an excess supply of products, Carbide is searching for new "convenience technology" products to increase profits. Last year the company earned $158 million on $3 billion in revenues, or 15% less earnings than in 1969. Now Carbide is having great success with Seed Tape, a ribbon of poly-oxide plastic containing seeds. Using a tractor mounted with a reel of tape, a farmer can plant a crop uniformly. The seeds are evenly spaced, and the tape dissolves when sprayed with water. This eliminates the costly problem of uneven planting, which often causes crops...