Word: crops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nowadays cheerleading is as much a part of the football show as passing and kicking. Last week, while the cream of the 1939 crop of U. S. footballers wondered whether they would be picked for one of the hundreds of All-America teams (chosen by sportswriters, Greek restaurants, department stores, cinema producers), the cream of college cheerleaders had the same worry: whether they would be picked for this year's All-America cheering squad, to be announced Christmas week...
Brady claims that students now-a-days are a "better crop for studying" than they were years ago. He believes that the house plan and the consequent influence of older men on frivolous underclassmen has brought about this change...
...backfield this year there was a large quantity of starring material to choose from. George Varn, Dunster; Murray Helpern, Dudley; George Dreher, Winthrop; and Roy Moore, Kirkland, were the four picked from an outstanding crop, with Bill Tyng, Joe Peden, Bob Russell, and Dick Lewis, representing Leverett, Winthrop, Eliot, and Lowell as runners...
...bushels (7½% of the U. S. crop) of soybeans, which quintupled the 1933-38 export average. Main buyers: non-belligerents Holland and the Scandinavian countries...
...Japanese did not stress a few facts : > 1939's summer-autumn cocoon crop is the biggest in six years, estimated...