Word: sweetgrass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will never be able to thank Nature enough for the scenic setting it has given to our beautiful city. It nestles in the grandeur of the stately hills which line the lazy Mississippi River along its upper reaches and is distinctly not on the "sweetgrass prairie," where TIME wishes to place...
...Wing, Minn., on the sweetgrass prairie 60 miles from Minneapolis, there grew up the son of a wholesale grocer who was the victim of two apparently irreconcilable ambitions-to be a minister and to make moving pictures. His name was James Friedrich. For two years at the University of Minnesota young Friedrich was a 16 mm. movie bug, ran the Bell & Howell camera supply agency. Still resolved to be a minister, he transferred to the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va. There pious, cinemad James Friedrich set a precedent by writing his doctor's thesis (on the life...
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