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...Fruitful Trash. Faulkner rented a farm and conducted a serious test. He grew a thick cover crop of rye, harrowed it in, planted in a surface that looked more like a trash pile than soil. He used no commercial fertilizer, no insecticides. He shocked neighboring farmers by his unorthodox method of planting tomatoes: he simply laid each plant on top of the packed soil and threw a little dirt on its roots. Within 24 hours every plant stood up straight. The source of this idea was an old textbook picture of a seedbed. Faulkner noticed that while the seedbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Down With the Plow | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...Unspeakable design . . . horrible example . . . palm-leaf bauble . . . witless bit of trash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Carefree Yet Rhythmic | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Muchado on hearing these lascivious runtors threatened to withdraw from the show. Armband took this is stride, saying fire till you seeurgglt flash trash mask crask umguggle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPOON FATTED CALF TO BE DEVOURED BY CRIMSON TODAY | 4/30/1943 | See Source »

...layer, usually with trowels. Old holes, long since filled up, get special attention. They may show where houses stood, help toward determining the plan of a community. Dr. Wissler says: "To overlook them when digging is inexcusable. With practice they are easily dissected out." Other old holes may be trash pits-mines of information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Dig Up the Past | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...Stat School students are urged to assist the char force as much as possible by placing all trash they are leaving behind Monday in receptacles for same in the hallways and basement corridors. Be sure to take articles of enlisted clothing to the Supply Sergeant if you are not taking them with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATISTICACKLES | 2/26/1943 | See Source »

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