Word: crop
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fraternity houses and dorms and rooming houses harbor many erstwhile students who soon will be travelling homeward toward doting daddies. When a considerable calamity visits any community, there comes a bountiful crop of satisfying, but short-lived resolutions of "Never again." Within a month, the whole crowd of resolutions go a-glimmering, and the community tumbles back into the rut which leads to disaster...
Contrasted with the unusual requirements of our allies for food, the extraordinary needs of our armed forces, and our necessities, is the prospect of a small crop yield for the current season. The Department of Agriculture, in its annual survey, estimates a total production of our food staples less than that of any year since the beginning of the European War. For war purposes it matters not how little or how much these smaller crops exceed in value these of previous years. Armies and nations are fed with food, not with money; it is the physical material itself which must...
...Lampoon, apparently, has gone out into the open market this year and gleaned a fresh supply of stuff for its Christmas number--stuff and nonsense. Both items rank pretty highly, compared with former stereotyped numbers in which the stuff and nonsense have been merely the previous year's crop, garnished with new class numerals...
...harvest time, and lower prices to consumers later. (That this second point is not a matter of closet theory is abundantly shown by J. E. Pope, in an article in the Harvard Quarterly Journal of Economics of August, 1916). The speculator has failed to do it during the current crop year, for reasons above indicated, in part: (3) The speculator is a risk-bearer. Millers and grain buyers in the country "hedge" by short sales on the exchanges when they buy to grind or to ship. If the wheat the miller buys to grind goes down, and with...
...offices in the Petersham town hall as a base, he will carry out by automobiles a canvass of all the farmers in the vicinity of the town and will organize a scheme which will greatly increase the acreage under cultivation throughout the whole neighborhood. As a result the normal crop production will be at least doubled and it is hoped trebled. Seed, fertilizer and labor will, as far as possible, be furnished to all those who are unable to themselves furnish them. The money for carrying out these loans will be raised in the towns...