Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soil unnecessary. For three years he has worked on the problem; finally he developed a method of seed treatment on a large scale at low cost. Barley so treated yielded a 15-fold increase in phosphorus-poor ground. Untreated barley seed in the same soil yielded no crop...
Hindenburg Helps. Though the Stresemann telegram seemed to offer a plausible solution, difficulties continued to crop up and 48 hours later the press received an impression that Hermann Muller was about to return his mandate for forming a cabinet to President von Hindenburg. Just after breakfast, next morning, the old Feldmarschall received Herr Müller, spoke weighty words and crisp. Before the day was out Germans had a resplendent "Cabinet of Personalities...
...Long hair no, bobbed no go, Eton crop yah hoo, severe shingle righto...
...Then, if the loan fund should be exhausted, the Board would fall back on the Equalization Fee, a levy collected proportionately from all the growers of a surplus crop. The fairness of this scheme has never been questioned, since when a surplus crop occurs, all who have grown the crop have contributed to the surplus and helped drive the price down. The difficulties foreseen are in determining when a surplus exists and in deciding what is a "fair price...
...rare presidential year which does not bring to this country a whole crop of favorite sons, slogans, graft and corruption, and popular histories of the two major political parties. The Century Company is therefore very much in step with the times in issuing some 1000 pages, profusely illustrated, for the further education of the men in the street who will soon--at least a small percentage of them--play the role of citizens...