Word: reverting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pear infestation has now been reduced 75% or more. Writes Professor Ramaley: ". . . The scattered remaining plants are not a menace-indeed they are of value for breeding Cactoblastis. Areas of former dense prickly pear are now being used for crops, for dairying and for grazing. . . . [This] land will never revert to its previous useless state...
...Such a statement may seem to many blindly optimistic. To those who urge that our universities revert to the outlook of the Middle Ages it will appear not so much optimistic as outmoded and heretical...