Word: bushell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hawaiian -or Hawaiian-type -music and dancing, and sighing and song, and love by a stream, and rollicking in a valley and baritoning on a beach. Throughout it all. Ameche scatters such philosophic petals as "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bushel...
...Harvard Athletic Association's ticket office has ever been an organization devoted to hiding its light under a bushel. Its activities are shrouded in discreet anonymity, and a sense of bureaucratic modesty prevents the office even from announcing how tickets are to be distributed for any coming athletic event. Seemly as all this secrecy is, it is also a little irritating to the undergraduates the agency serves. Many, for example, would appreciate knowing beforehand how many, college tickets are available for the next game or meet. And it would also be of interest to know how the number of alumni...
...soybean oil is exhausted. Poultry and cattle feed producers also expected to have to raise prices to offset the increased cost of the soybean. There is little prospect of early relief for the processors. The price of soybeans is expected to keep soaring until it reaches $3 a bushel this year before it levels...
Blood & Banians. Fate, for most khaki farmers, is another visit to the banian, or village moneylender. Of Jagjit's 30-bushel wheat crop, the banian already gets about a third. The banian's charge for a bushel of wheat: two bushels at harvest time, the equivalent of 100% interest. Yet Jagjit and others would rather take their chances with a local banian's mercy than ask for government credit. "The government drinks the blood of the farmers," said Jagjit fiercely. "It charges 12% interest, and wants the money back as soon as the term of the loan...
...refraining from competition in the intercollegiate quiz sport "College Bowl" (Channel 5, 5:30-6 p.m. Sundays), Harvard may be hiding its intellectual lights under a bushel-basket; solid achievement, such as our Rhodes Scholarship record, cannot hope to stagger the public so smartly as the sight of the bright young flash gleaming out cultural answers over...