Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forest Behm, a tackle from last year's Nebraska Rose Bowl team, and a student at the Business School, will probably help Henry Lamarr with the Jayvee line, while Frank Swirles, a quarterback at U.C.L.A. last year will probably handle the Yardling backs, and John O'Brien, Notre Dame '41, will whip the Freshman ends into shape...
Hunan-a round-bellied province that hangs like a bubble suspended from the lake country of the middle Yangtze* is famous for the most beautiful women, the most peppery food, the most savage fighting peasantry in China. More than anything else it is famous as the rice-bowl province of China. Its lush wet fields produce nearly 10% of Free China's stupendous annual 47-million-ton rice harvest...
...trainees also published a newspaper, Camp-ISS-Bellow, put salt in the sugar bowl, sucked lollipops handed out by Mrs. Roosevelt, satirized their lecturers in songs, played tennis, danced, picnicked. Curfew was at midnight, but when Mrs. Roosevelt was around they stayed up until...
...Dust-Bowl farmers looked at their sodden fields last week and cursed the rain they had longed for in other years. Drought-scarred Kansas was drenched. The water lay in placid sheets high as the wheat heads. On lowland farms and in valleys the grain stood rotting under the stagnant waste of water left by spring floods...
...this meant: 1) that the U.S. in this year of war would have a bumper wheat crop to help feed hungry Britain; 2) that Dust-Bowl farmers would have money in their pockets to carry them through another dry spell; 3) that pessimists who thought the West's marginal wheatlands should be given back to the desert had reckoned without the whim of changing weather...