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...hazardous gamble, depending on the turn of a tide or a rainfall in Russia. Scientists would make the farmer see his farm not as a source of food alone but as a vast storehouse of potential petroleum, paint, tiles, silk, synthetic lumber. Let him turn oat chaff, cottonseed hulls, corncobs into money to buy Fords, phonographs. New Products. Professor Orland Russell Sweeney, of Iowa State College, called the Corn Belt a great sponge soaking up the energy of the sun. Nowhere else in the white man's world is there another such trap for solar power. This energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Farmers' Friends | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Cities are well enough, but in the railroad gangs and outlaw camps there's more joree-jaw (raillery, chaff), and, better still, the singing. "Speerchials" still persist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Joree-jaw | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...makes his way to the shines of learning. From hence forth his steps will be bent through the pleasant lush valleys, flitting like a ghost under the shimmering moonlight of former nights of striving to separate the pure gold from ore, the grains of knowledge from the chaff of the win-nower of learning. And the danger to his health will be immensely reduced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/6/1928 | See Source »

What was a songwriter at best that Vienna should be mindful of him, Vienna who had her Beethoven there just around the corner making big symphonies and an opera? The Schubert operas with their trashy librettos were chaff compared to it. No one ever heard his symphonies, or of him, an awkward fellow, a song writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Centennial | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

There is a good deal of chaff mixed with the wheat in all of us. Too much attention has been paid to the chaff in Harry Tammen and Fred Bonfils and not enough to the wheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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