Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dillon Field House blackboard and a Soldiers Field practice lot Coach Henry Lamar is molding Harvard's latest crop of prop school footballers into a Freshman eleven...
...Ramadier's Government was wobbling; French economy was heading toward collapse. Industry was hamstrung by coal shortages, strikes and absenteeism. With exports for the first half of 1947 $500 million less than imports, the French dollar reserve was down to $400 million. Drought had shriveled half the wheat crop. Scarce dollars must be diverted to buying food...
...carried posters denouncing the Pope as a "starver of the poor," and suggesting that Premier de Gasperi be hanged. Most serious of all was the battle of the fields: almost 1,000,000 agricultural laborers in the Po Valley were on strike, endangering Italy's desperately needed rice crop. In the cities, food rations were promptly reduced...
...stored away in the human species. They were caused by natural agents, such as cosmic rays striking through the sex organs. But man-made agents can cause mutations faster. Last year, Professor Muller won a Nobel prize for proving that X rays beamed through fruit flies can breed a crop of monstrosities (TIME, Nov.11...
Crooners are something like goldenrod: a new crop springs up every year. Last week, as usual, the woods were full of hopefuls...