Word: spray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university, they unlimbered machine guns, began to haul off "ringleaders." In dormitories, where many who had not turned out for the demonstration were still in their night clothes, some of the students hastily piled up barricades of tables, beds and chairs. Others fled into the night amid a, spray of Nazi machine-gun bullets. When the skirmish ended, scores of the wounded were carried off to Prague hospitals...
...Artillery shells filled with gravel which would spray muddy terrain in No Man's Land, make good footing for attacking infantry...
...Monastery of the Mountain of Light in Czestochowa, early last week, the arm of the priest who stands to the left of the doorway, dips his little broom in a can of holy water, and dexterously swishes precious spray over the pilgrims, bestowing virtue on the devout but not wasting a drop, grew tired. Thousands of grim, black-clad peasants who had been living on potatoes and pickles, hundreds of gayly costumed villagers, a few colonels in uniform, and counts in Bond Street tweeds, were flocking to Poland's holiest shrine to pray to Regina Regni Poloniae, the "Black Madonna...
...growth substances" or hormone-like chemicals, which growers now use to stimulate root-sprouting, accelerate pollen production, etc. etc. Dr. Frank Easter Gardner and his co-workers at the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry station in Beltsville, Md. decided to try these two naphthalene compounds as a spray to keep ripening apples from dropping. They sprayed ten varieties of apple trees just before crop maturity, were signally successful in preventing premature falls. In Science last week they reported that in tests on one troublesome variety ("Williams Early Red") only 2% of the treated apples fell before picking, whereas from...
...Time at the helm, and drawn by seahorses of Commerce. . . . Horns of Plenty pour their abundance over the gunwales. . . . In the basin of the fountain four pair of seahorses, mounted by riders who represent Modern Intelligence, draw the barge, while babes and mermaids disport themselves in the surrounding spray...