Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might have been the remark of an imbecile or an ignoramus who hated professors. The second formed the prelude to a portion of the speech in which II Duce dealt with the widespread rumor that his police are a veritable tsar's cheka. He said: "It was necessary to weed out police, especially the plain clothes police. . . . When police are in plain clothes and have not the check of uniform they must be composed of picked men-zealous and silent citizens...
...decayed. Toads had nosed their way in. Idly, aimlessly, the swaying shawl swung to and fro. . . . Poppies sowed themselves among the dahlias; the lawn waved with long grass; giant artichokes towered among roses; a fringed carnation flowered among the cabbages; while the gentle tapping of a weed at the window had become, on winters' nights, a drumming from sturdy trees and thorned briers which made the whole room green in summer...
...their final form: Editorial Board, A.F. Pavenstedt chairman, D. E. Shoene-Rene, H. M. Parker, R. D. Williams, E. C. Dieckerhoff; board, J.P. Barnes, R. M. Clements, J. G. Chandler, Robert Cushman Jr., Philip Donham, P. M. Dunham, P. M. Easton, M. W. McNear, Abbot Peterson Jr., A. W. Weed...
...Lyman; Mrs. Roger B. Merriman: Mrs. Joseph Morrill; Mrs. Guy Murchie: Mrs. Edward Page: Mrs. Charles Pratt: Mrs. Frederick Pope; Mrs. F. L. W. Richardson; Mrs. Robert Saltonstall; Mrs. John B. Swann: Mrs. Robert G. Shaw; Mrs. Chester A Wardwell; Mrs. Joseph Warren; Mrs. Ridley Watts; Mrs. Charles F. Weed; Mrs. Moses Williams: Mrs. Frederick Winthrop...
...weed-overgrown continents of earth...