Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fine Arts at Harvard. William G. Saltonstall, Headmaster of Exeter, Oliver S. Picher, Major-General in the U.S. Air Force, A. Frank Reel, labor lawyer who was on the defense council for Japan's General Yamoshito, and who later wrote a book defending the hanging of Yamoshito. Frederick R. Weed, Headmaster of Roxbury Latin...
While he was still an adolescent, his father's farm had begun filling orders from all over the world. The New Zealand government sent for 60,000 pupae of the Cinnabar moth, hoping the caterpillars might eat up the country's ragwort weed. The Newmans supplied the pupae and the moths did well in New Zealand. They even ate some ragwort. But eventually, New Zealand birds ate most of the Cinnabars...
...absence and under indictment for perjury in the congressional investigation of the Institute of Pacific Relations, will keep his old title of "lecturer" with full pay. ¶ In Troy, N.Y., State Supreme Court Justice Donald S. Taylor gave a green light to New York City's efforts to weed out Communists from its schools. In a case brought by six teachers who had been fired or suspended for refusing to tell the board of education whether they are or ever have been members of the Communist Party, the court ruled that the board has every right to ask such...
...Tintoretto, Bellini, Veronese. Two of the finest are Tiepolo's angelic 18th century Portrait of a Boy Holding a Book, with its ruddy flesh tones, velvety browns and yellows, and Pannini's The Pantheon and Other Monuments of Ancient Rome, whose picnickers, barking dog and proud, weed-grown ruins form a landscape as gently charming as anyone could wish. Among Houston's 30 choices, which will be delivered after its new wing is completed next fall: the 15th century painting of St. Lucy Led to Her Martyrdom, by Siena's Bernardino Fungai...
...appointment seems strange behavior by an Administration that has been most careful to weed out of the government officials whose work might be hampered by disagreement with policy. Last week, two thousand Democrats were cut from the Civil Service, a prelude to dismissal for just this reason. There may merit in this practice, but if so, it should at least be consistent...