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Word: brazier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beneath a brazier sun green pastures, fresh corn lands, lush gardens from Virginia to Kansas turned brown and sere. The Potomac, Ohio and Mississippi rivers dwindled to a sluggish standstill. Corn wilted away on stunted stalks. Grass shrivelled up before it could be hayed. Live stock, famished for feed and water, was hustled to slaughter before it died. Fruit and truck rotted. Catastrophe was upon a million farm families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: No Green Pastures | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

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