Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nature struck back again-this time at weed-killing 2,4-D. Last week the Department of Agriculture glumly admitted that Johnson grass is showing signs of making itself immune...
Twenty-five years ago this month the Theatre Guild needed a new curtain. In 1925 the Guild was still no more than a healthy off-Broadway weed, and it decided that the price of the curtain could be raised best by putting on a small musical show Sunday night, when most theaters are dark. A young man named Richard Rodgers, just out of Columbia, was told about the Guild's plan and urged to write the music for the show. Rodgers was fed up with writing music for amateur theatricals, and had almost made up his mind to enter...
Summer theaters, like Timethy-weed, will start blossoming across the countryside in June. Managers of stock companies, however, are already active, attending to the mass of details that goes before opening. Playhouses, whether they be barns, fully-equipped theaters, or something in between, are being rented and prepared. Schedules composed chiefly of standbys like "Private Lives" and "John Loves Mary," are being jotted down by apprehensive producers. Thousands of "young hopefuls," who like to think of themselves as "fresh new talent," are feverishly writing letters and making the rounds, seeking jobs in the largest theater training institution in America...
...Secret Service had to weed out a greater than usual number of crank letters. Their authors were apparently under the impression that it would be easier to reach the presidential eye at Key West than in Washington...
...charged that the medical profession is governed by "Petrillo and Fishbein economics." "Medicine," said he, "is the only profession where the element of competition comes only at the beginning ... If we had more, we would have better doctors. There would be more opportunity for medical research and competition would weed out the weaker ones as it does in other professions...