Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seed is planted on a thin slice of cork floating in the solution; the floats are kept damp until tiny rootlets come crawling down into the water, when the plant can take care of itself. Six foot sweet peas, tall dahlias fed on food pills have bloomed profusely in winter at room temperatures...
...hired Carl Miller, a nephew of Guide La Roque, to paddle him seven miles down the Brule from a place called Stone Bridge. Past beaver houses, mink holes, deer licks, naked rampikes, swarms of mosquitoes and a military outpost, who carefully examined the voyageurs, the newsgatherer came to a thin hedge screening the river from a lake which it entered. Across the lake was a log cabin with a wet U. S. flag hanging over it. On the lake was a guide boat with a chair in it. In the chair sat a figure in a slicker and ten-gallon...
Godfrey-Risko. There is always one fighter among heavyweight fighters who is called the Black Menace. It used to be Wills. Now, as everyone knows, it is George Godfrey, Alabama blackamoor. To be the black menace a fighter must be big. Godfrey weighs 245 pounds when he is thin. The Black Menace must have beaten up a lot of inferior fighters. Godfrey fought 16 times last year, scored 16 knockouts. Above all, to be the Black Menace, it must be rumored that he is: 1) so formidable that the heavyweight champion is afraid of him, and 2) crooked. Godfrey fulfills...
...Minority Platform itself, people said that the voice was the voice of La Follette but the hand was the hand of Senator George W. Norris, the deep-eyed, thin-lipped Nebraskan who is guarding the elder La Follette's mantle until the son is sere enough to wear it. They guessed so partly, perhaps, from the difficulty the young man sometimes experienced shifting his document back and forth to facilitate gesturing; and from the unreality of the gesture which the young man made while saying, "We denounce." People who denounce in their own words do not need to study...
After less than five minutes the demonstration was weakening when, to the rescue, in struggled tall young William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island with a thin, rectangular object some eight feet long and five feet wide...