Word: weeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poets. They had come from Harbin, Manchuria, some 4,000 miles. Their chauffeurs were moderately excited because none of them had had to regrease his car. At Harbin they had been supplied with the invention of one Alexander Muhacheff, Russian engineer; an oil extracted from the seeds of a weed that grows wild over vast areas of Manchuria. Despatches last week from Peking stated that some Japanese gentlemen had interested themselves in Engineer Muhaeheff's new lubricant, which is very cheap to make. They had built a factory at Harbin to "revolutionize" motor lubrication...
...immigration problem is a perennial weed, which always flourishes in new countries whose natural resources, cheap land, and high wages offer inducement to foreigners to settle within their boundaries. In the United States the problem has again sprung into life with the proposed changes in quota as established...
Abie's Irish Rose-The immortal weed. At Mrs. Beam's-An English boarding house, face to face with a fascinating woman-eater...
Will Not Wait to Weed...
...What this attitude of first year men toward their work means is shown by the circumstance that thirty seven per cent of last year's class is out of the School. This year I do not intend to wait until June to weed out those who have no place in a serious professional school...