Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spring training season has brought forth the usual crop of future Babe Ruths and Grover Cleveland Alexanders. They have flashed in the southern sun as have others before them. Now they are "great." TIME publishes a list of them. In July TIME will publish the same list with word as to which have stayed "great." which returned to the bush leagues. The list...
Many a U. S. woman has starved to preserve a slim figure, some men have refrained from reaching for a sweet. Nonetheless, the world's sugar crop has become yearly greater. Largely and suddenly expanded after the War, production increased by leaps and bounds until prices clumped, profits dwindled...
...Cuban restriction plan, like England's rubber restriction experiment, achieved quite opposite results. The rest of the sugar producing world saw a golden opportunity to make money. And while Cuban production fell from 5,125,970 tons in 1925 to 4,011,717 tons in 1928, the world crop, swelled by many a new cane and beet plantation, rose from 23,687,000 to 25,326,000. Cuba then supplied only 16% of the whole. World markets were seriously unsettled...
PRACTICALLY all modern mystery-detective stories conform to a certain general formula, subject to variations to suit the individual author, of course. There are very clearly defined elements which crop out in every one, sometimes in a slightly different guise, but always distinguishable for what they are. The reason for this recurrence is obvious; these elements are the ones which interest the public and sell the books, and the author has no choice but to include them. Thus we have the love affair between the two principles, gradually developing and providing the happy ending, the clever sleuth, the shifting...
...this idea takes its proper grip upon the nation's populace the Tiger will have a big jump on all its competitors. As the crop of Woodrow Wilson Joneses matures this year and begins to consider which college to favor and why, the result is sure to be fore-ordained. Started off in life with such an advantage in name, all that remains is a Princeton education to insure two terms in the White House...