Word: sods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many farmers forget that "a sow must be fed for milk production to insure strong, thrifty pigs." Her diet must include protein, minerals, vitamins. To provide the farrow with enough copper and iron, a preparation may be placed on the sow's udder, or clean, parasite-free sod or soil placed...
...proper archeologist is equipped for the most delicate digging and examinations with a small trowel, whisk broom, toothbrush, bellows and old fork-handy for cleaning out skulls. First the site is measured and mapped. Then the sod is stripped away and the soil is carefully peeled off, layer by layer, usually with trowels. Old holes, long since filled up, get special attention. They may show where houses stood, help toward determining the plan of a community. Dr. Wissler says: "To overlook them when digging is inexcusable. With practice they are easily dissected out." Other old holes may be trash pits...
Beau Jack is no Joe Louis, but he is a busy little fighter. His real name is Sidney Walker and he is an orphan. When he was a moppet, he was found asleep in the locker room of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club, Bobby Jones's home sod. Bowman Milligan, the club steward, made him shoeshine boy. When the club put on battles royal, Little Beau always picked up the coins. Before long, the happy-go-lucky, flat-faced ragamuffin became the mascot of Jones and his friends...
...Island in the bay of Rio de Janeiro, the Government has some 200 enemy agents interned. Most difficult of the lot are the Japs, who make a point of posing brazenly in bemedaled uniforms. Before they are captured, however, they mask themselves in ingenious disguises. Dusting a bit of sod off a Jap farmer, Brazilian police discovered what was purportedly General Yusci Tonogawa. Another Jap turned up in the uniform of the Brazilian Officers' Reserve Corps...
Deep Sea Chanteys and Sod Buster Ballads (Almanac Singers; two General albums). In the former, the vagrant, gusty Almanackers toss off Blow the Man Down, Blow Ye Winds High-O, etc. The other set is a random survey of such Americana as Ground Hog ("Up comes Sal with a snicker and a grin, Ground Hog grease all over her chin...