Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impress the government with the seriousness of their calling, they voted ?10,000 to set up a medical school in Johannesburg-to help "weed out the quacks and illiterates from among the medicine men," as Somo put it. The school will be in a two-story building, with shops for witch doctors and herbal-I ists on the ground floor. In its syllabus will be a course in "throwing the bones" -a method of diagnosis in which four-inch pieces of ivory or ox bone are dropped on a sanded floor...
...next morning Orthodox farmers went out to the land once more to plow their weed-choked fields and prune the tangled vines. There were relatively few of them who had made the sacrifice which the Law called for. Israeli government statisticians estimated the total loss in produce at less than...
...latter Fund was on the C.C. list the year before, and at that time some students had protested because its group fostered segregation. "It is apparent that the Council purposely changed the name of the Jim Crow Weed this year to deceive students," the club fumed...
...year got its fingers in the Dewey & Almy Chemical Co. of Cambridge, Mass, with a $2,000,000 loan. Grace has also started two new big chemical plants in San Francisco, the Naco Fertilizer Co. of California and the Grace Agricultural Chemical Division, to process and sell bug and weed killers...
When the roll call was over, Newell Weed, an alternate, began to wave the Minnesota standard. There was a tremendous cheer from people who knew what was coming. "Here we go," Tom Dewey was heard to say. Pennsylvania's Governor Fine was also trying to be recognized, crying to Chairman Martin: "Joe, look down here, hey Joe, Joe, look here!" But Minnesota got the floor first, and Senator Thye spoke into his delegation's floor microphone: "Mr. Chairman, Minnesota wishes to change its vote to Eisenhower...