1870–75; < Hindi kās < Sanskrit kāśa; compare Pali, Prakrit kāsa
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When the tractors successfully cleared a 7,000-acre tract of kans, the Indian government swung a $10 million loan from the World Bank, bought 240 more U.S. tractors, equipped them with specially designed root-cutting plows.
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For centuries, India's ryots turned their bullock-drawn, wooden plows against the kans roots, to no avail.
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Between them, Saturn and kans choked some 10 million acres of hungry India's wheatlands.
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A quarter of a century ago, an Indian government agronomist named Daulat R. Sethi set out to lick kans, found a way by cutting its roots a foot or so beneath the surface.
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Ook Cavite was door Juan de Silva te goed versterkt, om dit met eenige kans op succes te kunnen aanvallen.
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