Word: crop
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...person who engages without remuneration in sport. Whether he is in it for publicity or pleasure, he is free to drop out when he chooses, and while the public may admire his prowess, it owes him no more for following his inclinations than it does to the spring crop of marble players. The distinction between amateur and professional is still far from trenchant; and it must be zealously guarded for the good, of amateur and professional sportsmen alike...
...Senator Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa called at the White House office with the attorney of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. He told the President that the farmers of Iowa need money badly to move their corn crop...
...signed a pledge never to vote for a law permitting the sale of intoxicating beverages, but the methods of the Anti-Saloon League, he said, are unChristian, "vindictive, vengeful and mercenary," and "by its drastic methods of trying to enforce the Volstead law it has hatched the biggest crop of law-breakers ever inflicted upon a community...
...mystical nuptials. The population of He des Dames multiplies apace. With Phaon growing into a handsome youth, and in view of certain semi-authenticated episodes, Anni Prachtel and a few cynics remain dubious of the annual parthenogenesis. But they preserve the myth, and five years after the first crop of childen, the virgin mothers feel so self-sufficient that the disposal of male offsprings is an issue. Some are for Amazonian exposure on the mountains, some for the method that elevates voices and renders docile. Instead, compassion prevailing, an isolation colony, Manland, is formed under Phaon's governance; and here...
...present, according to Armour & Co., the packing outlook is excellent. With nation-wide prosperity, there is an active demand for packing products, especially those derived from hogs. The very large corn crop of this year also gives assurance of an ample hog supply...