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Word: cottons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cent more land will be planted in corn than was planted this year, and there will be an increase of six per cent in acreage of land planted in wheat. Also, next year, there will be a decrease of over 6,000,000 acres in land planted with cotton. This will be of benefit to the entire country, for in the past too much land has been used in growing cotton. Next year, according to plans, there will be an increase of 15 per cent in the sweet potato crop, and a production of 6 per cent decrease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW ENGLAND HAS FARMING FUTURE | 4/8/1927 | See Source »

...tremendous painting, a mural in sharp tempera, upon which appears the entire population of an isolated plantation-all the huts, with the doors open, all the hearths, pots, newspapered walls and floor chinks; all the hound dogs, sow pens, butchered hogs, wood piles; all the murmurous lanes and sweaty cotton acres; the giggling creek, Blue Brook, and the threatening, dreamy big river with a sandy island and soaring fish hawks. The figures moving everywhere are dominated by a blue-black giant, April, the foreman and patriarch of the settlement. Such story as there is culminates in the tribulation visited upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...teams will line up. HARVARD 101st OFFICERS Cotton No. 1 No 1 Langrint White No. 2 No. 2 Wash Clark back back Thayee

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poloists Play Post Season Game | 3/26/1927 | See Source »

When the Age-Herald was founded in 1870, Birmingham consisted of a cotton field crossed by two railroads. The first pages of the Age-Herald- described the first activities of the first promoters and engineers in the coal-and-iron-studded mountains that were to make Birmingham the first industrial city of the South. The Age-Herald gave its encouragement to the early iron-and-steelmongers who tried and failed, and tried again and again to make good metal from the sulphurous mountain ore and sell it profitably. It helped educate Birmingham out of its suicidal policy of selling cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chapter Heading | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Cotton scored 6 White 5, and Clark 4 goals and in a mix up in front of the University goal Cotton accidently scored a goal for the opposing team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HORSEMEN RIDE TO EASY VICTORY IN TITLE PLAY | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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