Word: vines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nice!" someone once said of the Psychological Clinic, "Wisteria outside, hysteria inside." For the clinic on Plympton Street hides its work in a rambling vine-draped building which could easily be mistaken for a farmhouse. The interior is equally folksy: it feels more like the home of a large (and rather eccentric) family than the combined research center, clinic, and classroom building which...
...said, pointing an accusing finger at Mahon, would put the replacement rate for aircraft so low that the Navy would be down to 4,000 planes within six years. Cried he: "They are stagnating the Navy air arm and letting the naval operating air force die on the vine . . ." Vinson's quarrel was not with Mahon but with President Truman and the Budget Bureau, for it was they who had trimmed down the Navy's requests...
...that not all educators would want. The Office of Education, now one of several leaves on the Federal Security Agency's vine, is little more than a great statistics bureau, and a sponsor of worthy projects. It publishes two dry-as-dust education journals, puts out bulletins on better teaching methods, worries about U.S. school enrollments. Though it handles funds for land-grant colleges, its function is more to counsel than command...
Negative speakers Lawrence Spellman and Lawrence Vine, of Boston College, maintained that a federal civil rights bill would be an unconstitutional violation of state's rights. They added that such a program would be an impractical attempt "to force by legislation a trend that must develop gradually in people's hearts...
...doctrine of soil conservation has taken deep root in the South. Farmers plant less land to cotton, more to grass and legumes. They terrace their steeper fields skillfully, plow on the contour instead of up & down hill. On thousands of once sterile slopes, the miraculous vine, kudzu, clambers like Jack's beanstalk. It chokes devouring gullies with entangled soil. It buries fences, leaps into trees. Its big leaves, which stay green until Christmas, are as nourishing to cattle as excellent alfalfa. When plowed under, kudzu enriches the soil...