Word: bushelful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prefers "ain't" to the awkward "am I not," thinks it fine to occasionally split infinitives, regards prepositions as good things to end sentences with. Says the professor: "When I say, 'Well, that's all we've got time for,' it always triggers a bushel of mail from people who think that 'got' is wrong...
...originally set down by Joyce in playscript form. Hard to read, harder to act, impossible to stage with its own wild flavor intact because of obvious censorship obstacles, "Nighttown" is bound to keep playgoers consulting not only programs but probably interpretive texts carried into the theater by the bushel and read by match-light. Sample of the brothel-born maunderings of Ulysses' protagonist Leopold Bloom: "I wanted then to have now concluded. Nightdress was never. Hence this. But tomorrow is a new day will be. Past was is today. What now is will then tomorrow...
...year he halfheartedly studied physics at the University of Stockholm, then transferred to the Geophysical Institute in Bergen. Bergen had something special to offer: the great Professor Bjerknes, whom Rossby remembers as "a man with a bushel of hair, a remote interest in his students and a frugal way with his family." Soon Rossby was living in the professor's house and planning to take his air-mass gospel to the ends of the earth...
...absolute virtue is not the only command written upon the sheepskin Harvardiana-brethren, ye must not hide your light under a bushel. Consider the needs of the simple and sociable savages in the West, the rude frontiersmen doomed to destruction in their shiny Jaguars, the winning young ladies in their sororities and sewing circles-all, all waiting for that saving seed, that saving seed which only we and our apostles can plant...
Because of election-year congressional wrangling (TIME, April 16 et seq.), the bank had got off to a late start. Most winter wheat was waving in the breezes, and most corn farmers saw more chance for profit in raising crops for the guaranteed support prices of $1.50 a bushel under acreage control or $1.25 for over allotment corn. Then came the drought. Fiery winds seared crops in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. Farmers looked at their parched and wilted fields, hied themselves off to the soil bank, signed on the dotted line and went back home to plow their stunted crops...