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...ever belonged to the party. It was easy to see that many present did not dare speak their minds-it had been too long since they last could. Others were unable to grasp this new thing, free speech. But it was as fine a start and as encouraging a seed of a decent new Reich as I could have wished...
...seed of epidemics has multiplied and spread during the war. In twelve continental European countries, incidence of cerebrospinal meningitis, poliomyelitis, typhoid, dysentery, diphtheria and scarlet fever has more than doubled since war began. But as the world had less disease in 1939 than in 1914, infection is still low compared with...
...pocket, Sam Higginbottom went back to India with modern implements and began farming 275 acres of the poorest land he could find. Discarding the surface-scratching wooden plows which Indians had used for centuries, he cut deep with tractor-drawn, modern plowshares-into amazingly rich soil. His seed sprouted into such grainfields as India had seldom seen...
...driving or flying along the front with one of his two aides, Majors "Chet" Hansen and "Lew" Bridge, while his able chief of staff, Major General Leven C. Allen, keeps the operations machinery spinning. After dinner Bradley usually sees a movie (e.g., Janie, Heavenly Body, Bride by Mistake, Dragon Seed) screened by his aides in his quarters, pecks out a letter to his wife on his portable typewriter, goes to bed early...
...Cleaning cotton seed before machine planting. After ginning, the seed has a fuzzy nap that makes seeds stick together; planting these clusters by machine makes "chopping" (thinning), necessary when the plants come up. The Hopson farm eliminated chopping by de-fuzzing the seeds so they could be planted singly...