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Since then, scientists have produced a spearmint with lemon flavor, bigger tomatoes, peaches, strawberries. Dr. Blakeslee began to be harassed by letters from bald men and barren women asking if his "miracle drug" would grow hair or insure fertility. These impertinences irritated him so much that several times he almost wrote a letter to the newspapers...
With finer imagery than that of the better-known "Mountaineer Poet," Jesse Stuart, Still makes his child's world as bright as a new dime. It was not a world in which dimes were common. On the barren slope above Blackjack Mine, Bracky Baldridge owned a garden patch, a shack with puncheon floors, a black birch tree. When the mines along the creek closed one March, Bracky's no-good cousins, Harl and Tibb Logan, came to live with the Baldridges. The dried beans ran out fast. Then soft, lazy Uncle Samp came and stayed, his thin grey...
Campus. Ohio State's nondescript buildings, sprawling around a horseshoe-shaped campus, are barren of ivy and Gothic furbelows. But its undergraduates have some traditions, some fun. Ohio State's Orton Hall sounds the Westminster chimes each quarter-hour. Ohioans cheer lustily for their championship football, basketball, swimming teams. Their 60 fraternities, 20 sororities (enrolling a third of the student body, who can live in them for $5 a month more than in a rooming house) give frequent dances. Each after noon undergraduates gather in Hennick's, across High Street, for sodas and 3.2 beer. Other customs...
...Bazaar. For this is the story of The Store and how it grew. If you want the dope on how to found a dynasty and how, once it is founded, to end it, this is the picture for you. J. Edward Bromberg is the only oasis in an otherwise barren cinema. The final scene of the father--Edward Ellis--dying with the blinking Bazaar sign in the background was more than a body could bear. We hobbled from the theatre in tears; it was a shame to see the Pardways go down the drain...
...golden era of 1926-29 the first two years saw Crimson defeats 12 to 7 and 14 to 0. Finally in 1928 after five barren years Harvard came into its own, breaking the drought by laterals executed by the Dave Guarnaccia-Art French combine. The year of the Depression saw Albie Booth's strip tease as the "mighty mite" stormed onto the field unsuccessfully to attempt a field goal. Harvard won 10 to 6. Barry Wood and Captain Ben Tickner made it three straight for the Crimson in 1930 with a 13 to 0 victory...