Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yalies, they're on the skids, according to the New York scribe. He thinks Furse is a much better passer than Gallffa or Gustafson of Army, white Jackson and Nadherney are potentially superior to the present crop of Cadet ball carriers, but he wonders how they can gain "behind a small, weak line." Where will the Elis finish in the Ivy League? "It's quite possible that Yale will lose seven out of nine games next fall and wind up in the league celler ... why the Elis over scheduled Vanderbilt and Wisconsin is a mystery...
...Spivak go 220 Yards under full sail? That will be one of the big questions which may be answered tomorrow. He did well indoors this winter and like the rest of the current crop of dashmen, he has been loafing through 23-second 220's this week...
...these two birds that makes them so much more precious than the average broiler? Well, Father Haydn's chick is absolutely enormous and interminably long-and the public loves to get good poundage for its money. It is primarily what is called a think-chick, and its little crop is crammed with quotations from Walter Pater, W. H. Auden, Machiavelli, Engels, and even Max Lerner...
...rookie crop of outfielders has looked particularly ripe and Dolph thinks "there will be quite a battle there" for starting assignments...
...nearly 40 years, wispy, stooped Billy "Smith" was just another of the wandering fruit tramps who drift through California's central valley, following the crop seasons. Three years ago, Billy settled down at Dingville, a little grocery-&-bar crossroads on Alfred ("Dutch") Montna's ranch outside Marysville. He did odd jobs around the ranch and store...