Word: woodland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio, when a jury finds a man guilty of a capital crime, the death penalty is mandatory unless the jury recommends mercy. The first jury that heard Cecil Yankey's trial for the crowbar murder of 71-year-old Leroy Woodland in 1947 couldn't reach a verdict. Yankey agreed to plead guilty, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a one-judge court...
...with rodents, and the germ is carried to man by rat fleas. The West, in its great open spaces, has a zooful of rodents which have become infested with rat fleas, among them prairie dogs, picket-pin gophers, ground squirrels, chipmunks. The Public Health Service called the disease "sylvatic (woodland) plague." It is still bubonic, in the sense that it can cause swelling of the lymph glands of the armpit or groin, but it has become so rare that the word plague could well be dropped...
Sometimes insects are benefited by spraying. A woodland plot in Massachusetts, infested with gypsy moth caterpillars, was sprayed with 1.5 lbs. of DDT per acre. With the caterpillars wiped out, the forest remained green and flourishing, and soon had a normal population of non-pest insects. A nearby plot, left unsprayed, was defoliated by the caterpillars and lost two-thirds of its normal insect population...
Madden, Thomas James of 15 Woodland Road, Minneapolis; St. Thomas Military Academy, St. Paul. Neale, Daniel Christopher of 2252 Folwell Street, St. Paul; Murray High, St. Paul. Palmquist, Keith Paul Stanley of 3901 South 13 Avenue, Minneapolis; Roosevelt High, Minneapolis. Parsons, Laurence White of 928 Exchange Street, Keokuk, Ia.; Keokuk Senior High, Schellinger, Richard Ralph of 920 6th Avenue, Council Bluffs, Ia.; Abraham Lincoln High, Council Bluffs. Harvard Club of Minnesota Scholarship...
...varsity golf team shivered on the greens of Woodland Country Club yesterday and fell before an easily superior Babson Institute squad by a 6 to 3 count...