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...help of the U.S. Air Forces. In the meantime they have done some figuring. The silver iodide particles need be only one-millionth of an inch in diameter. A billion billion of them will fit in an eggshell. About 200 pounds of silver iodide may be enough to seed the entire atmosphere of the U.S. at the rate of 100,000 nuclei per cubic foot. Adding one pound per hour will keep it seeded...
...D.P.s, mostly of Dutch extraction, will be carried (2,000 at a time) to Paraguay. There they will find two flourishing colonies settled in the late '20s by Mennonite refugees from Russia and Canada. They will be supplied by the Mennonite Central Committee with farmland, tools and seed with which to take up again their simple, religious lives...
...blowed an awful sigh, and says he, 'This is a wicked and a perverse generation of vipers, young man.' [But] that shovel-shaped underlip of his jist fell outwards like the fallin door of a coal stove, and he upsot the gourd inside of his teeth. I seed the mark of the truck agoing down his throat jist like a snake travelin through a wet sausage gut. He smelt into the gourd a good long smell, turned up his eyes, and said, 'Barm of life...
Johnson J. Hooper on census-taking in Alabama ("Bless your soul, honey, take a seat. Now do! Are you the gentleman that Mr. Van Buren has sent out? I wonder! Well, good Lord look down, how was Mr. Van Buren and family when you seed...
...hell & brimstone fundamentalist, not to be confused with Softshell - or modern - Baptists, or the Six-Principle, Seventh-Day, Particular, Truthful, Lying, Free-Will, No Effort, Duck River or Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists...