Word: break
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right weather for husking is cold and clear?the husks, brittle then, break easily. At Renz's the air was warm and the ground muddy, but the wagons went fast. A good husker never looks at his wagon. He trains his team to move the way he husks, stand a pace, step a pace, to the rattle of the ears on the bangboard. White corn, yellow corn. 45 ears a minute thumping into the wagon. . . . An ordinary workman could not pick it up as fast as that even if it were husked. Red corn. . . . At a husking bee when...
...bishop characterized the policy of the Christian Unity League as "a strangely mistaken and a clearly disruptive one. The members of the Christian Unity League will not aid the cause of unity by seeking to force their views on others, and certainly not by trying to override and break down the laws of churches to which they do not belong...
...citizen has ever won the Nobel Prize for Literature.* Last week's award did not break the 28-year-old rule. The Swedish Academy of Letters picked Germany's great Thomas Mann...
Later?"Today he asked my hand and offered me his. Of course, I was happy, and naturally accepted. But what will my relatives say to this marriage? But I shall break down all barriers. Titles, money? I shall give up all, to conserve my happiness. My fiancé loves me and I love him. I feel that a new life is spread out before...
...Take it From Me," one must give all columnists "An Even Break." Whether you are "In Broken Fields" or not, travelling "Down the Line" invariably brings you to "Lining Them Up." But whoever has been courageous enough to get this far cannot avoid that bottom-of-the-column feeling...