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Word: corns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Tribune a picture entitled: "This will make the race interesting to watch," showing Candidate Hoover hot-footing it away from a spot labelled Indiana with his trousers clutched in his hands at the waist to keep them from falling down. The clutching was necessary because an article labelled "Corn Belt" had burst in two around the Hoover middle, to the glee of bystanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: G. O. P. | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Young Mr. Cowles and his father, Gardner Cowles, have a monopoly of the newspaper business in Des Moines. Their papers, Register (morning and Sunday) and Tribune-Capital (evening), too big for Des Moines, circulate through all Iowa. They are read by more inhabitants of the state where the tall corn grows than any other publications, except possibly the Bible and the Sears, Roebuck catalog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Iowa | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...years. Their material culture differed considerably from that of later Indians. The chief interest of these Basket Makers for modern science lies in the fact that they were probably the first people in the United States to practice systematized agriculture. They cultivated a very primitive variety of corn from which it is believed maize is derived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEABODY MUSEUM PLANS NEW WORK | 5/8/1928 | See Source »

...Passed a bill authorizing $7,000,000 for continued warfare by the Department of Agriculture upon the corn borer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...victory, past a multitude whose cheers celebrated the extenuation of a legend, Clarence De Mar, the aged printer, chased by a number of Scandinavians, an up Exeter Street yesterday afternoon to better his previous records in the Boston Marathon by eight seconds. Outdistanced by not outsung by the extensive corn cure conducted by promoter Pyle, this local run has swelled recently and rapidly of an institution, and is one of the few from an endurance stunt to the dignity Boston institutions to escape the obloquy of the enlightened. And if, eight seconds in this instance seems as short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HE WHO RUNS | 4/20/1928 | See Source »

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