Word: weede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last meed of God-given fertility. That is God's own command to us, as we can read in the Bible any time. But now they tell us that we raise too much. They tell us to leave some of our acres bare and watch them go to weed, and they come up and give us a little money and shoot our cattle on the ground, saying the cattle are starving and there are too many cattle anyway. God does not approve of that...
...Sotol, a distilled liquor made in Mexico from a yucca-like plant; marijuana, a drug, long common in Mexico, made from a variety of hemp weed...
...Arthur H. Weed, Jr. Memorial Cup has been donated by his classmates, the Class of 1936, for that Varsity or Freshman high jumper who turns in the best performance in the annual dual meets with Yale. The selection of the recipient rests with the captains and coaches of the Varsity and Freshman teams...
Winner of the high jump in the Fresh- man dual meet with Yale last spring, Arthur H. Weed, Jr. '86, was killed on November 4, 1933, when struck by an automobile while bicycling on Cape...
Your issue of April 9 states that the Economy Act of 1933 "authorized the President to ... weed out [veterans] who were drawing compensation for injuries not even remotely connected with the War," and it then proceeds to discuss the Senate's action in overriding the President's veto on the apparent assumption that only such limited ''weeding out" had been done. Nothing could be further from the truth. Had this been the extent to which Administration action went on veterans' compensation there never would have been a back-fire in Congress, nor any public demand...