Search Details

Word: weedless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Inside we found the building crowded with green-house nurtured exhibits set up by the local garden clubs or by plant and tree nurseries. There were corridors lined with forsythia, a pathway crowded by tulips, and long banks of orchids, all of them impossibly weedless and neat. The show had a pleasant and phony air of spring about it, as if it were a sudden incarnation of illustrations from a seed catalogue. The spring feeling was partly due to the chirps and warblings which permeated one part of building. We found that these were emanating from a booth occupied...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 3/23/1950 | See Source »

...prisoners were obviously proud of their spotless barracks, cultivated rock gardens, weedless patches of green grass, a soccer field which they had leveled out of a hillside, an open-air theater which they built themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Nazis in the U.S. . . . | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

| 1 |