Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fundamental difference between the AAAct and its current substitute is that under the former the farmer was bound by contract to reduce his cash crops by specified percentages. Now he reduces them voluntarily within Department of Agriculture specifications and is rewarded according to the extent of his cooperation. But to control next year's corn crop, the Department last week proposed to set definite acreage limits, enforced by an extra reward and a penalty...
...Sirs: . . . I hope LlFE will not only amuse but record in pictures our history. I recall as a boy many times going over bound copies of Harper's recording (by drawings)the Civil War. It is still a valuable record. With the modern and Eastman (ad for Rochester) film you can excel that record. May you do so. The film is mightier than the pen. WILLIAM H. GORSLINE Rochester...
...every Sunday and one on Friday, Harry Iron side still-maintains a full schedule of out side engagements for which he accepts any emolument offered. For all his Funda mentalism, Evangelist Ironside hand somely admits: "I know the King James's Version didn't fall from heaven bound in morocco...
...funny publicity stunt developed to promote the vaudeville act of the twins and their wives. Lucio's pneumonia turned out to be rheumatic fever, a virus-caused disease, which attacked his heart, killed him fortnight ago and necessitated the severance of the thick isthmus of flesh & bowel which bound his dead body to hale & hearty Simplicio (TIME...
...bound in rough grey paper with a vellum back and leather label stamped in gold. The first two-thirds deal with Lawrence's days as a private in the Air Force, which he joined in August 1922 after resigning his rank as Political Adviser in the Colonial Office. The remainder tells of his less harrowing days in the Cadet Corps. To protest the betrayal of the Arab cause at the Peace Conference, at which his promises to Arab leaders were broken, Lawrence refused his Colonial Office salary for six months, worked in an architect's office, went hungry...