Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American farmer. Having fed the world by pulling another bumper crop out of the magical hat, he has now proceeded to elect himself a President...
...Wisconsin's centennial year there are 18,623 students enrolled at Madison, from Edna Aaness to Norris Zvniecki, from 47 states and 57 countries. About one-fourth of them are girls.* The centennial's bumper crop had outgrown dormitories, boarding houses, and the fraternities and sororities on Langdon Street, spilling over into Army barracks, an ordnance works and three trailer camps. It now costs about $1,000 a year to go to college in Madison, for board, room and tuition, with not much left over for beer, dates and phonograph records...
...crop of talented young novelists appeared (always a good sign), and there was a fair showing from the old hands; non-fiction was sounder and solider than in 1946 or 1947. Historical novels still dominated the bestseller lists most of the year, but serious fiction, especially war novels, was giving them a run for their money. As the summer drew to a close, the late Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman's Peace of Mind, after months of leadership, had been replaced by Dale Carnegie's more practical guide to the same end, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living...
Forkballs & Sliders. Dr. Hyland, a frustrated ballplayer himself, resents any suggestion that the present-day frequency of "elbow chips" and bone growths means that players are less durable than of old. Says Doc, who often talks the way sport-writers write: "Today's crop is obviously better educated and, if anything, up to a faster type of baseball. The culprit in the injury woodpile is the development of trick pitching...
...have enough Government-approved storage of their own could qualify for Government loans on their grain surplus only by storing it in Government bins. When the Republican Both Congress refused to appropriate funds to build additional Government storage space, many farmers were unable to find room for all their crops, hence were unable to get crop loans on their surplus, and voted the Democratic ticket in protest...