Word: corns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Jan. 27 article on chiropody-podiatry must have been authored by a 90-year-old hermit. No one would consider calling a chiropodist-podiatrist a "corn cutter" any more than they would consider calling Dr. Jonas Salk a "pill pusher...
...vote was 68% for no Government help. In the South, once a stronghold for farm subsidizers, the vote was 53%, and on the West Coast it was 58%. Even in the Central states, 43% of the farmers voting preferred no Government help-probably not enough to influence G.O.P. Corn Belt Congressmen, who are still determined to plow under Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson for advocating reduced price supports...
...Give Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson authority to reduce price supports on cotton, tobacco, corn, wheat, peanuts, rice and dairy products to a minimum of 60% of parity, if necessary to avoid surpluses. The present floor...
Foot doctors began to be called chiropodists in the 18th century - just why is not certain.* Down the years they have winced as though somebody had stepped on their corns when patients mispronounced the first syllable "sheer" or confused them with chiropractors. The bookish among them were bothered, too, to find that H. W. Fowler in his Modern English Usage waspishly called the word chiropodist "a barbarism and a genteelism," added that the normal word for such a practitioner should be "corn-cutter...
Specifically, his major legislative recommendations--which had been outlined previously by both himself and Secretary Benson--asked for authority to set supports for cotton, corn, wheat, rice, peanuts and tobacco as low as 60 per cent of parity and to increase planting allotments of these crops as much as 50 per cent above levels now directed...