Word: borer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...price of July corn on the Chicago Board of Trade jumped a cent a bushel last week. The hand of Farmer Love quivered as he wrapped the specimen, despatched it to the Department of Agriculture in Washington. In that tiny package was a noxious pest, the European corn borer...
Inspectors rushed to Kankakee County to search for the devastating bug; the corn borer committee of the Illinois Agriculture Association called a meeting to plan precautionary measures; the U. S. House of Representatives prepared to act on the Purnell corn borer eradication bill, asking for an appropiation...
...question is one of approach rather than of godlessness. There is such a thing as primitive abject worship: there is such a thing as a sense of humor, and the two will clash as long as men are borer into this world. RICHARD RATUJE...