Word: sown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vincere Aut Mori"--To Conquer or To Die--is the ringing motto emblazoned on the Cambridge Fire Department's silken standard, designed and sown by one of its own members. "Organization and efficiency" might be a suitable, if less heroic, description of the innards of the light brick building in the spacious square under the shadow of Memorial Hall. Gone are the days of penny ante outside in the sun, of shirt-sleeved players and the inevitable kibitzers, who represent the common conception of the way a fireman spends his spare time. Science has forced the jovial, slapstick era into...
Reap where they have not sown...
Second Lieutenant Premindra Singh Bhagat, 22, of the Royal Bombay Sappers, was told, one day during the British conquest of Ethiopia, to clear a road of Italian mines. The Italians had sown the dangerous metallic seeds as prodigally as some hardy grain. In one stretch of four miles Lieut. Bhagat dug up 14 separate mine fields each containing 300 mines spread over 250 yards on each side of the road...
...most intensive disease-spreading was under way last week in Maryland, where it is subsidized with State funds and helped by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This week a similar campaign begins in New Jersey, where the first few spores were sown in 1939. The method is to heavily infect two half-acre plots of turf (where grubs thrive best) in each square mile. Birds, breezes and flying beetles then complete spreading the disease. Purpose of spore-sowing is not, as in spraying, to kill beetles on a specific plot but to establish the beetle enemy widely. Spore powder...
...Great Plains were plowed and sown to wheat to feed Europe in World War I, and their surpluses have made political trouble almost ever since. To feed Britain this time, the Department of Agriculture has a tougher but more constructive job. As tactfully as it can, it must discourage U. S. farmers from raising such inevitable surplus crops as wheat, corn, tobacco, cotton. It must encourage dairy, fruit and vegetable crops, which have always been side shows for U. S. agriculture. But not only do the British need these crops, the U. S. also needs more of them...