Word: corns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for the remarkable cessation of complaint by farmers is due not so much to the fact that Congress is not yet in session, as to a real improvement in agricultural production and prices. Preliminary estimates of the Department of Agriculture indicate that the current crop of corn, potatoes, apples and tobacco is better than the five-year average...
Sitting in the Senate Chamber of the Oklahoma Legislature, corn cob pipe between his teeth, Governor J. C. Walton attended his impeachment trial. Five lawyers defended him. Members of the State House of Representatives directed the prosecution. The members of the Senate sat as a Court of Impeachment...
...were at 4 and 6 in Crew B, have been shifted to their respective class crews until after the class crew races next week. This move was made by Coach Brown in an attempt to make the class crews as evenly matched as possible for the races. J. J. Corn '26 and T. J. Smith '25 have been placed in the two vacancies made by shifting Reber and Blosser to the class crews...
...Department of Agriculture set out to become lexicographer and authority in its own field. It issued a list of some 20 official spellings and definitions including: " Thresh " instead of "thrash"; "Brahma" instead of "Brahman" (Zebu cattle); " kafir " instead of " kaffir " or " kaffir corn "; " milo " instead of " milo maise "; " sorgo " instead of " cane sorghum"; "potato" for "Irish potato," "round potato," "white potato," " common potato "; " sweet potato" instead of "yam" for the plant Ipomoea Batatas; "purebred," "broomcorn," "butterfat" to be spellt as single words without hyphens...
...year average is partly based upon the tremendously inflated prices of the War period. In September, 1923, the index showed an increase of 2.2%. These figures illustrate a fallacy regarding American agriculture much commented upon lately-the tendency to judge it entirely by the price of wheat. Recently corn sold at the same price as wheat, showing that, even though the latter is cheap, the former is very dear...