Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago, to dissipate the blue funk into which collectivization had thrown the peasantry, each farm worker was granted his own small private piece of land on which he might raise a few cows, pigs, fruit, vegetables. The decree provided that the garden plots must adjoin the owner's cabin. Because in many villages houses are crowded close together, this stipulation could not always be followed, and the private plots in many cases were well away from the village, scattered around the collective fields. The peasants have worked like demons on their tiny pieces of private property...
...energetically enacted, Four Feathers is most memorable for its desert and battle scenes, dyed in the renowned Korda Technicolor. John Bullish characterization: Commander of the British Empire Charles Aubrey Smith, as an ancient fire-eater whose hobby is re-enacting his version of the battle of Balaclava with fruit and cutlery at the dinner table...
With country-doctor resourcefulness, Osteopath Fisher gathered a tank of oxygen from the village welding shop, a quart fruit jar from Mrs. Faulkner's kitchen, four pieces of rubber tubing from Mr. Faulkner's garage. He filled the jar with sterile water, punched four holes in its cap and screwed it on. He ran one long tube from the oxygen tank through the cover and almost to the bottom of the jar. The other three tubes were stuck just far enough through to take the oxygen as it came off the water's surface. Function...
...estate) and municipal ownership of Detroit's street railway. When U. S. Senator Couzens died in 1936, the bulk of his income was still free of taxes (and would still be today). But his municipal ownership idea had long since borne fruit...
...rival, and in its native Benton Harbor, Mich.-the House of David "As Reorganized by Mary Purnell," widow of its founder "King Benjamin." Mary Purnell specializes in tourist cabins, tourist-trade souvenirs. Judge Dewhirst runs the four famed House of David baseball teams, spry outfits all, a fruit-packing plant, his own tourist cabins and a cocktail room. He has paid some social security taxes to the Government, but unwillingly, plans to appeal in the courts...