Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...require that after the fall of 1951 three of the required six courses must come from the elementary GE list--which even now provides 11 choices in social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. The remaining credits would be elected from either the upper-group GE list or a bumper crop of departmental courses. In every step of the actual framing, the Committee has been careful to allow leeway-- even to the inclusion of two "elastic clauses" to handle exceptional cases, individual or composite...
...peak, said the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers, was estimated between 15 and 20%. Packers were keeping their fingers crossed on whether the drop would continue, but they thought that meat would be in "pretty good supply for the rest of the winter," thanks to the bumper corn crop...
...Crop-haired Composer Cage, who looks like a Huck Finn grown to 36, is trying to compose music that is really "atonal." Says he: "Atonal music was excellent in theory, but there were no atonal instruments to play it." He wanted "sounds" instead of "tones"; he found them in junk yards, bone yards and hardware stores-brake drums, pipe lengths, asses' jaws-and in his prepared pianos...
...never wastes his time pounding the desk. Slightly jowly, with a pleasant smile, he has neither bombast nor bulk (he is 5 ft. 10 in., 175 lbs.). He talks with a mild Midwest twang, walks with a slight stoop as if bucking a breeze. Both his tie and his crop of snow-white hair are usually a little askew, but his mind is as precise as an engineer's slipstick...
Miracle of the Wheat. What brought it down chiefly was the greatest crop in U.S. history. In Oklahoma and Kansas, the farmers marveled at the "miracle" wheat crop. The miracle was repeated almost everywhere. The corn crop, which had been poor in 1947, was the biggest ever. All told, the U.S. harvest was 11% bigger than ever before...