Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mixers serve the undeniably important function of shooting down each year's bumper crop of high school valedictorians and star quarterbacks. It teaches them conversational facility. ("Oh, you're from Fulton, Missouri? I had a cousin who drove through there once. He didn't like it.") It impresses on them the need for physical training. It makes them glad to study. It forces them to appreciate Cliffies for what they are--nearby...
...constant horror. Christened in 1928 as the "Gateway to the South," it swayed sickeningly to every vagrant breeze - so much so that Point Pleas ant Mayor D. B. Morgan banned its use during parades. Last week, under the bumper-to-bumper weight of cars, gravel trucks, and semitrailers, the "Silver Bridge" collapsed, carrying perhaps as many as 100 people to their deaths in the murky, near-freezing Ohio River waters 80 ft. below...
...farmers will pock et 10% less income this year than in 1966. After six straight years of rising income amid inflation, the slump in prices gives the farmer less net purchasing power than he has enjoyed since mid-Depression 1934. While complaint has always been their bumper crop, U.S. farmers last week threatened to beat their plowshares into swords...
...productivity, a 5.7% annual hike since 1950, v. industry's 2.6%. Despite a pastiche of Government programs to control production and protect prices, farmers continue to grow more on fewer acres through fertilization, mechanization and technology. Freeman indeed takes part of the blame for this year's bumper crop because he trusted all-but-unanimous warnings of impending poor harvests and drastically increased planting quotas, then watched in dismay as ideal weather brought in history's greatest yields-both of food and discontent...
...work for the McCarthy campaign, Richard A. Licht '68 said last night. Several students have begun cleaning and painting the Senator's Boston campaign headquarters he added. The office, at 11 South St., is expected to be in operation sometime next week. His supporters have ordered 5000 bumper stickers and 10,000 McCarthy-for-President buttons...