Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good news. The only people who have played into Smith's hands are such members of the national and collegiate press as have encouraged the untruth that the resistance to Smith was disorderly and primarily Communist. If Communists were among the demonstrators, good for them. It all went like water-music, and the singing of the National Anthem at the end was not merely for publicity. Richard Wilbur Andre du Bouchet Thomas W. Wilcox William B. Whiteside
...airlines, is natural and convincing. William Bendix takes over every scene in which he is, as a hedgehopping pilot and a friend of the family. One wishes that the movie had stuck to the flying story and left out the drab plot surrounding Anne Baxter, who is unpleasantly water-eyed almost all the time...
Backside To. After 30 years of complicated experimenting, Herz (who makes his living as an accountant) decided that the earth rotates faster than its oceans and atmosphere. Therefore, the inertia of water and air produce currents that appear to move in the opposite direction. Herz concluded that, since the important (in his opinion) air and ocean currents of the planet do, indeed, move uniformly eastward, the earth must be moving westward...
Shot-in-the-Root. Des Moines' Ross Daniels Root Feeder Co. has needled its business with a hypodermic needle for plants. Attached to a garden hose, the needle is inserted into the ground near the plant roots. The water dissolves powdered fertilizers in the neck of the needle and feeds them directly to the roots. The price...
...whole wheat bread, she got two ancient, water-operated grist mills to grind the flour, stubbornly insisting that the gram had better flavor and nourishment when it was ground in that antiquated way. As she continued to expand, she added melba toast, pound cake, etc. to the Pepperidge line. But she was careful not to expand so fast that she could not finance it out of earnings. In all, she has had to borrow only $5,000 outside capital and has kept the company a family enterprise...