Word: bu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything possible to encourage another record harvest in 1974. A preliminary survey compiled last week by the Agriculture Department showed that farmers do indeed plan to grow more than ever this year. Provided that the weather and other imponderables cooperate, they should harvest some 2 billion bu. of wheat, an increase of 300 million bu. over last year's yield. The jump in corn planting is up 10%, to more than 77 million acres. In fact, the profits on corn are so high that on some farms corn is displacing acreage formerly given over to soybeans, long the superstar...
...Yale, University of New Hampshire, Dartmouth and yes, even perennial cellar-dweller Princeton are reaching parity with the rest of the league. When was the last time you saw Cornell drop three Ivy League contests to Brown, Yale and Princeton? Or how about Yale defeating BU...
...longer do Cornell, BU, Harvard and Boston College dominate the east. This season teams like UNH and Dartmouth have forged to the top, while BC, Harvard and Cornell are having their problems. Providence College is supposed to be a basketball power, so how come they have a hot hockey team all of a sudden...
Indeed, for the first half of the season Harvard has not had the run of the division it has enjoyed in the past, when Cornell and BU seemed to be the only obstacles between the Crimson skaters and the division crown. This year Dartmouth, UNH and BC have added to Harvard's woes, dropping the Crimson's record...
...BU loss, the let-down has been noticeably evident. At UNH, Harvard saw a 2-1 lead turn into a 3-2 loss. Against the Big Green, Harvard stormed back from a 3-0 deficit to take a 4-3 lead, only to see the one-goal margin evaporate in the third period. At McHugh Forum, BC scored four unanswered second-period goals to overtake Harvard's 4-2 lead...