Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...library, at first refused to restrict the books in any way. But it was getting near election time, so members of the City Council and even Boston's Mayor, John B. Hynes, began to call for various forms of restriction. On October 4, 1952, the trustees voted to "weed out" certain "obvious Communist propaganda documents" from the library. The Post then sent reporters to the towns of metropolitan Boston to publicize any which kept Soviet and pro-Soviet periodicals in the open...
...Doesn't weed out students who "should never have learned to read in the first place...
...Scott Co. (grass seed) paid him $7,500 for a color movie showing weeds curling up and dying under a chemical weed killer. After a World War II Navy hitch, Ott spent three years making a two-minute movie which showed primroses "dancing" to the rhythm of a Strauss waltz. He did this after discovering that he could make the primroses droop or rise by controlling their moisture and temperature. The movie was such a success that Ott quit his bank job, built big new greenhouses, installed cameras and elaborate timing mechanisms to work them. In four years his gross...
...They were: Edgar Malone Hoover, V. Samuel Seidel, Russell Thornley Sharpe, and Israel Solomon Stamm. The coming years would be hard, but the Class had Harvard diplomas, and that would help.Twenty-five years afterward members of the Class get together to discuss their reunion. WILLIAM SALTONSTALL, DON HURLEY, FRED WEED, and BOB GREGG were photographer at a pre-reunion meeting last December. Saltonstall and Weed are both headmasters of Exeter and Roxbury Latin, respectively...
Besides Davis, five other men were elected to honorary membership yesterday. They are Dr. James B. Ayer '03, well-known neurologist; John N. Burk '16, music historian; Mark A. DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law; Francis Keppel '38, dean of the Graduate School of Education; and Frederick R. Weed '28, headmaster of Roxbury Latin...