Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost as well during Depression as during prosperity-$70,969,589 in nine years between 1920 and 1929, $60,261,527 in eight years since 1929. Chicago did better, with $30,650,030 before 1929, $48,604,771 afterward. Yale, which started an endowment drive in 1926, reaped a bumper harvest in Depression's soil. In the 1920s it raised $64,199,898, in the 1930s...
...wheat-producing States, counties, divided by county committees (including the Department of Agriculture's extension agent) among individual farmers. If the price (currently $1.11 a bushel in Manhattan) is less than 52% of the parity-price on June 15, or if the July crop estimate forecasts a bumper year, Secretary Wallace with the President's approval can make loans from 52% up to 75% of the parity price. Like the "nonrecourse loans" currently being given, on cotton, these loans are in effect Government payments in advance to the farmer for his crop at a fixed price almost certainly...
...boys, about six of them, drag a heavy steel cable across the ruins of the foundations and try to wrap it around the tall, narrow piece of wall. They cannot hitch it on high enough to get effective leverage. The other end of the cable is bent onto the bumper of a heavy dump truck...
...oddeh truck," he suggests. The other truck is hailed and it speeds into position, driven by a weazened little man who cannot conceal his delight at being one of the puller-downers. An extension of the cable is tied to his bumper and presently the two Macks, looking like two obstreperous elephants, are tugging away at the stubborn wall. Heave, Heave. And HEAVE. The wall sways out toward the street and the spectators shrink back. The truck's wheels spin in a last yank...
...have disappeared in England, or 3) have changed their meaning since emigration from England. Listed in Part III are such everyday words as build (in the sense of "construct"), which was only in literary use in England before it became common coin in the U. S.; bull, bimch, bumper, burial ground, bum, bunkum, boss, bluff (derived from the game of poker), business (meaning an occupation or industry...