Word: biannual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bricker and Gaus were members of a four-man round-table forum at the General Assembly of the States in Detroit over the weekend. The assembly is a biannual function of the Council of State Governments...
...word could describe India, it would be poverty. The ignorance of the farmer, the infant mortality rate, the cholera epidemics, the biannual famine, are all results of the unhappy fact that there isn't enough to eat. India, whose population totals almost 400 million, and whose land area is actually a subcontinent, must import rice from Burma and Thailand. Her own production, per acre, is only one-third that of Japan. The average farmer earns about twenty dollars a year, when his land yields anything. When it fails, as it does so often, he gets into the statistics...