Word: sown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Headline-of-the-week from the New York Evening, Post: LUST SEED SOWN, COPELAND'S VIEW...
...Lady Evelyn and 36 farmers with "unlawful assembly." In Castle Hedingham Court, she protested that she had been trying to stop the riot. With the whole countryside smoldering indignation, the court adjourned the case until after harvest time, enjoined the farmers to go out and reap what they have sown-after which attempts will undoubtedly begin to collect a tithe of the harvest. In all about ?3,000,000 ($14,580,000 at par) are collected annually in tithes, two-thirds by that hoary institution called Queen Anne's Bounty. Its Chairman George Middleton is a onetime Laborite...
General Hure could have ended the "war" at once by sending a few bombing planes over the valleys, turning them into poison gas traps. But he knew that his enemy was brave and honorable, that such a massacre would have sown rebellion in Morocco for decades to come. He chose the harder job of forcing a straightforward surrender. In their strongholds, the leaders kept the Berbers at a pitch by preaching "Death before surrender." The French began a tedious, hazardous prowling up the peaks, picking off snipers. In one desperate skirmish they killed the Berber Generalissimo Sidi Ben Ahmed. Some...
...State has plowed definitely through a "famine winter." Last week Stalin's smile translated itself into prompt action. More than 100,000 thoroughly punished peasants were released from their harsh exile, sent back on joyously clattering trains to help till the 225,000,000 Soviet acres thus far sown. Best of all, from the peasant's standpoint. Dictator Stalin created an All-Union Procuratorial Department to curb and supervise his strong-arm agents: the Gay-Pay-Oo, the militia, the criminal police...
Because it is what horticulturists call a "sport" there is only one way that Baron Lambeau's Cattleya Gigas Alba can be propagated. Seeds are useless; its seed if sown would revert to the colors of its comparatively worthless parents. But every year or so, depending on the Alba's strength, an expert with a sharp knife can cut off three or four of the pseudo-bulbs that form round its base, make a new plant from them. Baron Lambeau performed this operation several times, keeps his plants in his private hothouses. Not long...