Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority of groundhogs over a month ago, the snow will be gone in some two weeks. Entrepreneurs of upper New England voice strong disagreement, especially on the more exposed slopes such as Manchester, Vermont. Snow Valley operators expect to have plenty of skiing surface, mostly of the corn variety, for the next month to six weeks. Even if predictions go away, they offer to let prospective skiers assist in tapping the maple trees...
...from all over Western Europe (including G.I.s given special leave from Germany) flocked to it. In Nice's plum-plush opera house, they heard jazz from seven nations, including three brands of U.S. stuff. Ex-Ellington Trumpeter Rex Stewart and his sextet, garish in grey-green homespun and corn-yellow ties, set the joint jumping. But when Louis & his boys† burned a way through Rockin' Chair, St. Louis Blues and That's My Desire (with 200-lb. Velma Middleton rocking the lyrics), the fans really got what they came for. A forest of microphones carried...
...catches them to toughen up their bodies. They are fed special diets, which chicken men usually try to keep secret from each other. John Kehoe feeds his cocks such highfalutin food as cakes with French brandy, oysters, apples, sprouted oats, plain oats, eggs and flint corn. On the third day of the Orlando tournament last week (the fights go on for six hours a day and cost $7 to see), Kehoe's grey muffs lost their first two fights...
...last week's showing, they could not be sure. Grain prices seemed to have found an uneasy bottom. Corn and wheat seesawed, ending the week about where they started. The stockmarket also caught its breath; trading was small and cautious. Traders, like most other businessmen, were waiting to see how severely the crash in commodities had shaken the boom. Last week, a few soft spots appeared...
...Working with corn seed that had been exposed to radio-activity in the Bikini bomb tests, Dr. Ernest G. Anderson of the California Institute of Technology found that...