Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOSSY WINS, 90 To 0, ON A WET FIELD...
...soil the chemicals that plants need, but every farmer knows that this is not enough. The soil must also have a good "structure," i.e., its particles must cling together in crumblike "aggregates." Without such crumbs, a soil containing much clay or silt will "slake" when wet, turning into sticky mud. Then as it dries, it develops a hard, dense crust that kills seedlings, resists tillage, and keeps needed water and air from penetrating the surface...
Charlie got there by starting early in life: "I've been riding since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. Grandmother and Daddy gave me a saddle horse when I was six." By the time Charlie was eleven, and weighing a wringing-wet 45 Ibs., he had ridden his first winner in a quarter-horse race at Ponca City, Okla. Riding for his uncle, Clarence ("Shorty") Burr, young Charlie barnstormed all over Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri in the rough & ready quarter-horse circuit...
...Holy Ghost, one of Europe's oldest, is so full of medical antiquities that for centuries nobody paid much attention to a charming fresco in the administration building. Painted about 1550 by the Zucchi brothers, minor artists of the Raphael school, it shows a group of wet nurses feeding foundling children, while in one corner of the scene a plump, placid musician plays a ciaramella or shawm, a cousin of the oboe. This week the hospital's archivist, Professor Pietro de Angelis, was getting ready to publish a startling explanation of the musician's presence...
Besides stimulating the wet nurses' production, the music had another purpose, says De Angelis. As a result of their early conditioning, the foundlings soon developed musical aptitudes which won them places in papal choirs. One thing De Angelis cannot explain: why or when the hospital abandoned a practice which put it centuries ahead of the medical profession in the use of musical therapy...