Word: crop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbolic of Spring or finals, but it also represents the quality of the printed material on the inside pages of the magazine. The stories will jar nobody, and disappoint only a few, for they are almost without exception more skillful and a lot less neurotic than the last crop, but there is little that rises above the higher stages of mediocrity...
Even in the great winter-wheat fields of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, where the biggest crop of all time is in prospect, the growth was ten days behind schedule; farmers had been forced to replant early corn and cotton. Many had not been able to plow for row crops...
...Conference, called by Columbia Daily Spectator editors "solely in the interests of free dissemination of information," drew a bumper crop from Massachusetts to Washington...
Last season Boston College won 17 games of 19 played, and several members of the 1946 nine were unable to retain their starting positions this year. Among Maguire's crop of promising Freshmen are rightfielder Frank O'Sullivan and catcher John Fitzgibbons, both of whom handle themselves with considerable aplomb...
...last two weeks, the prices of farm products have declined. With a bumper crop in the offing, the drop may well continue. At best, if the Agriculture Department continues its policy of buying up food to keep it off the market, the support program will, in fact, be doing just what its critics now say it does, keeping prices up. At worst, unless the prices of manufactured goods drop, in line with food, the Government might find itself pouring out millions to support farm prices on a scale so vast as to be unworkable...