Word: spawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ecclesiastes, but it is only over-much study that is a weariness of the flesh. It is as true today as when Cicero said it that books adorn us in prosperity, comfort us in adversity, delight us at home and do not hinder us abroad. Time discards the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour, and the treasures remain. The field of learning widens but work becomes specialized and subdivided, and each scholar may know his part. All are under obligation to the munificence of past generations...
Each spring since 1918, when Benzie County (Mich.) Clerk Newt Ely found the creek near his house green with smelt struggling upstream from Lake Michigan to spawn, fishermen have flocked to brooks around the Great Lakes, have taken in 8,000,000 pounds of smelt annually. Softspoken, bespectacled William J. Duchaine, managing editor of the Escanaba Daily Press and the town's unofficial pressagent, sniffed a chance for the town to recoup its losses in local mining and lumbering declines. Having initiated Escanabans to profit-making outdoor fun with logrolling contests, deer hunters' powwows, he sold the town...
Instead of a fair assessment of comparative merit, there was a crucifixion. Oratory was impaled on sentiment. Impartiality was considered the spawn of Communism...
...world like T. S. Eliot's Wasteland-an end-of-the-world world where "in the muttering heat, the race of pygmies runs, worm's spawn beginning in the worm's shape, ending with the worm, pullulating, multiplying, and festering, conglomerating their littleness, spreading and aggrandizing it under the huge sun, joining together in a love that is the joining of the cloven maggot, engendering little hopes, little fears, throwing up small sprays of dust, spray by spray, till they have made a universe of dust." In vigorous poetic passages like this, I Live Under a Black...
Jacob mushrooms grow in concrete, aluminum-painted "houses" which are filled with beds of manure compost and kept pitch-dark. Lumps of spawn are pushed into the compost about eight inches apart. In three weeks fine, white, hairlike mycelia extend from top to bottom. Then a "casing" of loam is put on top and in three weeks more the first white pinheads pop out. Each bed bears well for two or three months. Then the tired manure is stripped off, sold to golf courses as a top dressing for $1.50 a ton. The mushrooms themselves, fat, firm and thick...