Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...were between 125 and 150 homestead families on his 50,000-acre spread, each trying to live with a few cows and sheep and harboring vain hopes that crops that sprout so effortlessly in Illinois would do the same in semiarid Montana, which gets less than 15 in. of rain annually. They are all gone now, tiny homes fallen in, schoolhouses vanished, everything blown away by the same winds that lofted the sandy soil as far as the Atlantic seaboard in the 1930s. A few of the homestead titles are held by descendants. Mathers sends lease payments to places like...
Montreal at New York, ppd. rain...
Clay is one of these Hundred Percenters, standing in the rain on the back porch. The theme of the hundred percent, of the extremes of completeness and incompleteness, of wholeness and emptiness, pervades both the novel and Clay's life...
Montreal at New York, ppd. rain...
...botanists and ethnobiologists who collect folk medicines and exotic living materials like the bark of the Pacific yew tree, from which scientists extract Taxol, shown to be effective against ovarian cancer cells. The researchers are looking for "natural" cell killers harvested from such remote locations as the Brazilian rain forest and Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Even ground-up seashells, sponges and coral starfish are studied for chemicals that might show some ability to fight cancer...