Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give the Board a headstart on the wheat problem, the Department of Agriculture last week began a nationwide movement to get wheat-growers to increase their own storage facilities on the farm. Purpose: if each wheat man stored a part of his own crop, the autumn market peak would be diminished, prices would be steadied, car shortages and terminal embargoes would be avoided...
...Christmas of 1934 was shown continuing vaguely off the side of the graph with about four million circulation at the end of 1937. Liberty, however, was shown dashing onward and upward with such verve that it went quite out of sight at the top of the graph in the autumn of 1936. Readers could only conclude that Cousins Patterson & McCormick publish, on their own showing, a magazine where the sky is the limit...
...work, while Tenniel is very well represented in the Lewis Carroll collection made by Harcourt Amory, '76, and given in his memory by Mrs. Amory and their children. The other two, Crane and Caldecott, are thoroughly taken care of by the books, original drawings, and autograph letters given last autumn by A. H. Parker '97, to form the Caroline Miller Parker collection in the Harvard Library. Mr. Parker's gift includes a fund of $5000 to assure the permanent well-being of these treasures, and he has also recently made a number of most important additions, among which...
...Cornell Idea" prevailed. The first 412 Cornellians were scrambling around the unhewn Ithaca campus in the autumn...
...games of "patience." She lets her companion arrange them. Dinner is the sacred hour; not then, not even afterward, can the companion express a personal opinion. Yet. the companion once breaks that rule. Although only 38, she says to Old Mrs. Greene, "I should like to die in the autumn." Startled, Mrs. Greene ponders the disparity of their ages, impulsively gives her a ruby-and-diamond brooch...