Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshmen went the honors of salvage, and the applause of the "wait-till-next-year" boosters. The Yardlings hammered the Bruin Cubs, 6 to 3, in the opener, for their 12th straight victory. Center Bill Cleary pushed his point total for the year to 58, with three goals and two assists. Art Noyes and Winkie Childs provided the other two goals...
...million Armour-plated fortune. When he died in 1927, she inherited debts that ate up her personal fortune, forced her to move from sumptuous 846-acre "Mellody Farm" (now the site of Lake Forest Academy) to a modest Chicago flat, and left her with little more in the till than 400 shares of seemingly worthless stock in an oil-cracking company which her creditors wouldn't touch. Less than four years later, the oil-cracking rights were sold to Standard Oil of California and Shell Union in a deal that netted Mrs. Armour $8,216,058. She promptly moved...
...rung or so below the problem novel on fiction's ladder stands the predicament novel. This type of fiction might also be called soup opera, since the hero or heroine usually gets in the soup in the first chapter and doesn't get out till the last. Soup-opera books have a further important characteristic: after modest-sized editions in hard covers, they go quickly into huge editions in paperback-and become the reading of millions. The Birds and the Bees by James Aswell is a typical sample of the species...
...year (1949), his curriculum ranged from semi-starvation to marching till his feet blistered, from writing whoppers as a "People's Correspondent" for the New China News Agency, to a minor post with the Ministry of Propaganda - while inwardly he fought to keep Mao Tse-tung and gang from using his brain as a Marxist sewage disposal dump...
...jarred the teeth of the driver (and would have thrown a less-skilled man into the ditch). It was sent splashing through a shallow tank of water. For six months the car was driven, in well-shrouded secrecy, until it had piled up more than 100,000 miles. Not till then did Studebaker Corp. engineers feel that they had worked all the bugs...