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Title: W. E. Ley to Jimmy Ley - October 11, 1943
Description: Jimmy's father writes to him about goings on at home and updates him on the neighbors, the fall weather, and the season's positive farmwork prospects. He expresses his pride in Jimmy and his hopes for Jimmy's future.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:26464

Title: W. E. Ley to Jimmy Ley - October 30, 1943
Description: Jimmy's father tells him about the outcome of his trip to Des Moines with Jimmy's brother Billy. He muses on being home alone and repeats what Lucille wrote about the money including the purchase of a $50 bond for Jimmy.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:26467

Title: We Are What We Eat: Food, Culture, and Identity in Literature and Film, Food, Culture, and Identity in Literature and Film
Description: In this tutorial we will examine the cultural and political significance of food in literature and film. We will focus on the way national cultures and personal identities are described and defined through narratives of the preparation, consumption, and appreciation of food in twentieth-century Chinese and Chinese American literature and film. Additionally, the course will integrate samples from other cultures and periods as points of comparison. Extracurricular activities, such as a restaurant visit, will also be included to facilitate our understanding and analysis of the culture of food.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3463

Title: When Josiah Grinnell's Home Concealed John Brown's Guns
Description: Clipping advertising a series of articles by the Des Moines Register about John Brown's trip through Iowa, including his stay at J.B. Grinnell's home.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:185

Title: Wood Anatomy of Darwiniothamnus, Lecocarpus, and Macraea (Asteraceae)
Description: The genera Darwiniothamnus Harling, Lecocarpus Decaisne, and Macraea Hook. f. are endemic to the Galapagos Islands. Although wood anatomy of Lecocarpus has been considered by Carlquist (1958) and Eliasson (1971), the material available hitherto has been twigs rather than mature wood. The other two genera have not been studied with respect to wood anatomy.
Date Created: 1982
PID: grinnell:26661

Title: Wood Anatomy of Hydrophyllaceae. I. Eriodictyon
Description: Hydrophyllaceae is a characteristically herbaceous family; only Eriodictyon Benth., Wigandia H.B.K., and the monotypic Turricula Macbr. can be considered woody (stems attaining a diameter of more than 1 em). Are plants such as these relicts from a woody ancestry, or is the family secondarily woody?
Date Created: 1983
PID: grinnell:26662

Title: Wood Anatomy of Hydrophyllaceae. II. GeneraOther Tan Eriodictyon, with Comments on Parenchyma Bands Containing Vessels with Large Pits
Description: Wood Anatomy of Hydrophyllaceae. II. GeneraOther Tan Eriodictyon, with Comments on Parenchyma Bands Containing Vessels with Large Pits
Date Created: 1984
PID: grinnell:26664

Title: Wood Anatomy of Polemoniaceae
Description: This studiy of the anatomy of the family Polemoniaceae adds to the summaries compiled by Metcalfe and Chalk (1950 and Grant (1959)
Date Created: 1984
PID: grinnell:26663

Title: Worker Motivation, Wages, and Bilateral Market Power in Nonunion Labor Markets
Description: The terms of market exchange can, under certain conditions, even in competitive markets, reflect underlying power relationships.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:11659

Title: Working Hard in Hollywood: How Hollywood Casting Directors' Performances of Gatekeeping Invest in Whiteness
Description: The relationship between casting and race has been insufficiently examined in both popular and academic writings on Hollywood.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:26708