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...wife who, with a handy pair of scissors, dispatches the killer. This being only the middle of Act II, a lot more has to happen, and it is the measure of Playwright Knott's resourcefulness that villainy does not slump, nor chicanery deteriorate, nor sleuthing go to seed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 10, 1952 | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...Seed into Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...ages is discouraging enough in itself, but why don't these myopic researchers take a course in simple Latin and discover what the old Roman botanical titles of these herbs meant in the first place? Even a schoolboy can tell at a glance that Lithospermum officinale means "seed petrified in the laboratory" . . . Gromwell indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...first seeds reached Boston on January 5, 1948 by air mail; some were planted at the Arboretum and others distributed elsewhere. Several weeks later, the bulk shipment containing hundreds of thousands of seeds arrived. The Arboretum distributed some 600 seed packets to botanists all over the globe and sent large bulk parcels to American and foreign institutions--including Chaney at the University of California--for redistribution...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Professors Squabble Over Seeds From China's Living Fossil Trees | 10/9/1952 | See Source »

...councillors had trouble seeing him. During his last few years as manager, government took on all the characteristics of a Boston counting house, and demands for slum clearance, better roads, additional parking space, and better schools have been ignored. It was a case of Business-Like Government gone to seed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Timed for a Change | 9/24/1952 | See Source »

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