Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walls. Students mobbed the building, stoned and scratched the murals. Finally the Minister of Education was petitioned to stop the havoc. This he did by asking the painters to "make no more targets for mischievous boys." Discouraged, the syndicate broke up, the painters fled to quieter places. But the seed of a national tradition in art had been sown. Following were the sowers...
...motion to prevent Al Smith from building the highest building in New York. Then will be a two weeks' discussion on prohibition, followed by ten days of Arizona Senators denouncing the Boulder Dam. "And by Christmas you won't know whether the birds got any seed or not.'' The prophet, Mr. Will Rogers, was wrong. The tariff bill was presented in the Senate last week by Senator Smoot. Two resolutions were offered calling upon the Treasury Department to open income tax reports of corporations. Another resolution directed that the bill be returned to Committee to strike...
...usual, the latest Mussolini birth occurred at Forli, the rustic farm in Northern Italy where Il Duce always spends his birthday (July 29) and also turns up seasonably to plow, seed, harrow and harvest his grain. Last week he was busy in Rome superintending the national harvest when a punctilious secretary an- nounced: "The child is a daughter, Your Excellency...
...just one more set in last week's tournament at Essex Country Club, Manchester,. Mass. Although she gave warning lately by beating Miss Sarah Palfrey, the 1928 girl's indoor champion, in straight sets at Longwood, the Essex officials did not bother to "seed" her in their tournament. As the play proceeded at Essex last week, she trounced Miss Marjorie Gladman, the 1927 Junior champion. Then she trounced Miss Eleanor Goss, No. 5 ranking player in 1927, by the tidy score of 6-4, 6-0. In the finals she started to trounce Miss Edith Cross...
...mark are not disturbed on international exchange. The disadvantage is that, in practice, prodigious complexities arise, out of which not a few crooks have profited. Exactly a year ago another set of international sharpers cheated the Great Powers concerned out of $12,000,000 worth of German hops, coal, seed (TIME...