Word: squash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, they come about as close as possible to collective fulfillment of the American dream. More than half report incomes exceeding $50,000 annually, 13.8 per cent earn more than $100,000. The class reflects current trends in upper middle class living. Jogging, tennis and squash are the favorite sports, but apparently they are not favored with quite enough dedication: 41 per cent said they were overweight by more than five pounds. The class clearly believes in hard work, with 57 per cent putting in more than 50 hours per week--nearly 40 per cent never wish to retire...
...some 300 million years, the cockroach has survived the ravages of nature and, lately, the best efforts of man to squash it, spray it or bug-bomb it into extinction. Some 3,600 species of the hardy creature thrive in a variety of habitats all over the world. Now one of the most common species in the U.S., Periplaneta americana, or the American cockroach,* may be hit by a blow below the belt: scientists have synthesized periplanone B, a chemical that acts as one of the female roaches' essences d'amour...
...will make the first donation to the Harvard Space Ship Fund? John M. Barnaby '32 Squash and Tennis Coach--retired
...aromatic celery, heung kuhn -all valuable for good wokmanship. A Japanese melon called Honey Drip is described by its originators as "intolerably delicious." Vegetable growers, generally a conservative lot, have been slow to pick up on an unusual variety called vegetable spaghetti: it is a member of the squash family that, when opened up, yields oodles of non-noodles that can be prepared exactly like pasta...
There are several novelty strains of sweet corn, notably "candy stick," which is only one inch thick but a foot long and is ideal for freezing; other innovations include the first bush-type butternut squash and a tomato, Long-Keeper, that stays fresh up to four months after picking. The redoubtable Burpee catalogue alone offers such enticements as the spacemaster cucumber, a pumpkin whose seeds can be eaten raw, and Sugar Bush watermelon, which represent years of genetic selection not only for flavor but -more important to the home gardener -for compact growth in a limited space...