Word: corns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from those countries. Of parasites which have already proved their worth hundreds of thousands were loosed from government insectaries. One star performer is Trichogramma minutum, a small species of wasp which lays its own eggs inside the eggs of the codling moth, oriental fruit moth, European corn borer, pecan nut case bearer, Angoumois grain moth, many another...
...Dafoe gave them two drops of rum each and popped them into the incubator which was too small to hold all five. The two strongest remained in their roomy clothesbasket, warmed with hot water bottles. Every two hours the trained nurse fed the quintuplets two medicine-droppers of milk, corn syrup and water. The feeding took so long that as soon as the nurse finished with No. 5 she had to recommence with...
Coral or kernels of red corn to stop nose bleed or other hemorrhages...
Everybody put on masks for the "Carnival of Fun." Corn whiskey was almost as free as Mississippi water and gamblers. secure in the knowledge that Memphis has always been a wide open town, plied a profitable trade. Nowhere was the music madder nor the moonshine stronger than in celebrated Beale Street...
...miles for livestock. Towns rationed their water supplies. In Nebraska the State University agronomist gloomily predicted that many fields would not yield over 5 bu. of wheat per acre (normal average. 15 to 20 bu.). In Minnesota they mocked Washington's crop predictions as gross overestimates. Farmers planting corn raised clouds of dust like columns of marching troops. Then came the wind, great gusty blasts out of the Northwest. It lifted the dust from the parched fields and swirled it across the land. It tore the powdery soil from the roots of the wheat and deposited it like snowdrifts...