Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cristalina, gave most satisfactory results. Hrvd No. 9072, a tenaciously rooted, drought-resistant variety, physically adapted for cultivation on the uplands, gave a cane yield of 56.2 arrobas per caballeria on a 1922 planting and a rate of 531 bags 96 degrees sugar per cab. Hrvd No.1192, on land similar to the Cristalina test, gave a cane yield of 53.990 arrobas, and a rate of 493 bags of sugar per caballeria...
...When similar encouraging reports had been received concerning cells in the armies of Great Britain, France and Poland, Chairman Rykov enthusiastically predicted: "The last months of 1928 and the first months of 1929 will constitute a period of mutinies and seditions in the armies of Capitalist Powers...
...called dry member of the House or Senate in an obviously intoxicated condition. . . . When a fire-eating prohibitionist wanders aimlessly about the Senate chamber during the discussion of important business and finally interrupts to ask the presiding officer, 'Whass bizness before House?' or when a similar exponent of the Volstead act has to hang hard to the edge of his desk, while his legs weave unsteadily under him as he attempts to make a speech, or when a champion of the 18th amendment relapses from maudlin inattention into snoring sleep in the midst of a Senate session...
...Conference approved a single commission of 37 members to represent their entire church in all unification discussions. The first of these will perhaps occur soon after the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. at Tulsa, Okla., next week, where a similar unity proposal will be discussed...
Professor P. E. Raymond, associate professor of Paleontology and curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, has been awarded the Walker Grand Prize of $1000 for his work on the fossils known as trilobites. Trilobites, now extinct, were marine animals somewhat similar to the present-day horseshoe crab...