Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field of plants, Professor Paul C. Mangelsdorf has recently developed a custom-built corn for New England gardens and named it the Dwarf Harvard Hybrid. The corn, now on the market, is ideally suited to New England gardens and climate. Mangelsdorf's hybrid corns are proving revolutionary for the world's food supply...
...Exile"), who, around the year 1000, at a synod in Western Germany, banned polygamy for French and German Jews.* The Yemenites clung to the Old Testament rule of David (at least eight wives), Solomon (1,000 wives and concubines) and Herod (nine wives). Poverty has always limited the custom, and limits it sharply today. The Yemenites are Israel's poorest citizens (mostly farmhands, shoeshine boys, etc.) ; only 1% of them can afford more than one wife...
...same synod, Rabbi Gershom also decreed it unlawful to open letters addressed to others. This led to the custom, prevalent in Eastern Europe until recently, of marking letters sent by messenger with the initials BHDRG, an abbreviation for "Beherem de Rabbenu Gershom-under the ban of Rabbi Gershom...
...veneration of saints' relics is a pious custom of Roman Catholics, though it dates back to pre-Christian times. According to the most common theological opinion, these objects, ranging from parts of the body to bits of things the saints used, are to be honored not for themselves but as tangible reminders of the saints...
...dressing room, Henrich is the most imperturbable man on the squad. Although he makes $40,000 a year, Henrich is careful how he spends it, wears store suits and shirts (DiMaggio was always "a custom-made guy"). Henrich never volunteers advice to another Yankee, but when players come to him for help his blue eyes light up. Says one mate: "He's the kind of guy, you give him a watch and he'll take it apart and put it back together, and then write the watchmaker telling him what's wrong with...