Word: drought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that one or two of the drought-resistant Harvard types are occasionally slightly lower in sucrose than that of the best Cristalina fields, but this is compensated for by a higher yield in tonnage, on the poor, shallow soils, where Cristalina will not grow at all satisfactorily...
That prayer has the power to change conditions in nature, such as drought...
Shantung Province is suffering from a famine brought on by drought (TIME, Feb. 6) which menaces the lives of ten million Chinese...
...preaches the value of turning the other cheek, the ex-minister here involved turning his with the monotony of a metronome. An ex-minister reaches the sheep country, settles among the farmers and sheep owners, and tries by faith in the good to bring them through such troubles as drought and failing crops. Misery bumps the characters around, until the great rain. The humbleness of Alec B. Francis and the plumpness of Molly O'Day take up most of the footage...
...This year the Famine Dragon is dry. He came last summer in the likeness of a burning drought and accompanied by a pest of locusts. Result: crop yields have fallen to 25% of normal in 65 of the 407 districts of Shantung. A similar dry famine in North China brought Death to 500,000 in 1920-21, and rendered 20,000,000 destitute...