Word: sown
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...diamond, which was originally intended to point southwest, has been swung round on its axis, so that it now points northwest. The diamond has already been sodded and the outfield graded and sown with grass seed. The grass is already up, and in order that the field may not be spoiled it is earnestly hoped that men will not walk...
...reductions. They left the cause, and forbade the effect. The truce between railroads was broken, and they were forced again into secret war. The law that declared that all firms shall be treated alike really intensified the inequality. Since reductions are illegal, they must be secret, and thus are sown the seeds of great monopolies much more dangerous than the railroads at the worst...