Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daily circulation of 136.302 (146,180 on Sunday), one of the few U.S. dailies with a circulation larger than the population of the city it serves. Earnings in 1954 were about $1,000,000 before taxes, and the paper has a $2,000,000 cash surplus in the till...
FROM the deep-frozen midriff of Canada to the near-tropical bottoms of the Rio Grande, an unusual army of 8,000 or more hunters scoured the continent last week. Theirs was a gentle but rugged sport: they were afield from dawn till dark, slogging "Over hill, over dale,/ Thorough bush, thorough brier/Over park, over pale,/Thorough flood, thorough fire . . ." in pursuit of their quarry. When the chase was over, the hunters had no trophies to show, for they did their hunting with nothing more deadly than binoculars and telescopes. They were devotees of the flourishing sport of bird watching...
...police commissioner begged Steel to give up his spectacularly successful amateur detective work so that the police would have a chance to catch some crooks themselves ("Heroism at its greatest! To suffer silently without reward"), Stainless reluctantly agreed, rented a room in a quiet boarding house to rest. Not till three weeks later did he realize that his fellow boarders were all crooks, finally went to work and bagged them...
...life momentarily in the second quarter: after a 52-yd. run by Lew Carpenter, and a Layne pass that put the Lions on the Cleveland four, Detroit's Bowman plunged over for the Lions' only touchdown. That was their last gasp. The Browns went for Layne mercilessly till he seemed almost out of action. A long pass by Graham, intended for Cleveland End Darrell Brewster, was knocked out of Brewster's hands but alertly grabbed in midair by Cleveland Halfback Ray Renfro. That set up the Browns' fourth touchdown, and the fifth followed when Renfro made...
...talent he recruited the daughters of well-to-do families. Takarazuka flourished in the '305, but it was not till after World War II that it really came into full bloom. Today Takarazuka is a thriving city of 35,000, and the railway (also serving other suburban stops) carries some 700,000 passengers a day. Two of the four Takarazuka troupes (named Snow. Moon, Flower, Star) stay at home, while the others tour the rest of Japan. Showman Kobayashi, now a multimillionaire, also owns theaters, restaurants, a baseball club and a movie company...