Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some reason, the spectacle of Brown atop the Ivy football standings is simply not, well, kosher. And not only do the Bruins lead (pardon me, share the lead with Princeton), but they are being billed as the team to beat, the cream of the crop, the Ohio State of the Ivies...
...Iowa or the Ukraine can compare to it. The whole country is a delta formed by two of the mightiest rivers in the world, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. Since the Brahmaputra is essentially liquid topsoil and the Ganges flowing shit, the resource base for producing the highest crop yields in the world are there. With their weather which allows a twelve month growing season the Bengalis should be able to produce enough crops to feed 300 million people. That is, not only feed themselves well, but also make up for India's entire food deficit, and still have food...
Yale has 14 return lettermen and a good crop of freshmen according to scouting reports, and will attempt to repeat its 1973 season, when the Elis made the NCAA district playoffs...
...matter of food supplies, there is no disguising Moscow's need for U.S. aid. With this year's grain crop projected at 170 million metric tons-a full 20 million below Russia's needs-Moscow desperately wants to return to the U.S. market, where it has already purchased 10 million tons this year. But until mid-October, at least, all U.S. sales and shipments of grain to the Soviets have been frozen by Ford in response to arguments that massive grain purchases drive up U.S. food prices (TIME, Sept...
...controversy is unusually intense because of present concerns over racial issues, Fogel's detractors and defenders both say that the final evaluation of the book's worth rests on more esoteric issues, like the accuracy of Fogel's comparison of pre-Civil War Northern agriculture, which was multi-crop, and Southern agriculture, which grew only cotton...