Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most part, lumped with upperclassmen in the Houses, and seemed to manage their social affairs under liberal House rules with no evidence of moral deterioration. They were subject to the peculiarly disruptive influences of war-time at an average age even younger than that of the present Yardling crop. If age and experience are any criteria, '51 is at least as qualified for independence as "duration" Freshmen...
Georgetown University's Dr. Edward B. Tuohy, who exhibited the hypospray at a Washington meeting last fortnight, foresaw a crop of new whodunit plots: "Why, with this gun someone could readily substitute poison for insulin, shoot his victim by pressing the hypospray gun against him in a crowd, and . . . the victim wouldn't know he'd been...
...whipping boy: the grain speculators or gamblers, as he termed them (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The idea that the Government's huge exports of wheat had caused the market's rise was misinformation, said he. The U.S., he added, had always exported a third or more of its crop, and present purchases were not out of line...
...little leary of talking back, bluntly said that Truman did not know what he was talking about. On the basis of the Government's own figures, said Richard F. Uhlmann, first vice president of the Chicago Board of Trade, "our total [exports] were only 12% of the crop for the past 17 years." This crop year, the Government plans to export 33% of the crop...
...last week the Government had bought about 270 million bushels of wheat, and that was slightly more than half of what it intends to ship during this crop year. Thus, in effect, as a prospective purchaser of further vast amounts, it was underwriting the speculation in the pit. It was also underwriting speculation by farmers. Convinced that Government purchases will drive prices still higher, the farmers are still holding back about half the current wheat crop. They can well afford to take the chance...