Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then, if the loan fund should be exhausted, the Board would fall back on the Equalization Fee, a levy collected proportionately from all the growers of a surplus crop. The fairness of this scheme has never been questioned, since when a surplus crop occurs, all who have grown the crop have contributed to the surplus and helped drive the price down. The difficulties foreseen are in determining when a surplus exists and in deciding what is a "fair price...
...Congressional districts of most states are anachronistic. Instead of redistricting themselves as their populations have grown, the States have been allowed, since the reapportionment of 1842, to elect new Representatives allotted to them "at large," i. e. by statewide instead of district vote. The present ratio of representation is one Representative to every 211,877 citizens. A congressman-at-large acquires a certain prestige from winning a statewide election; but, in Congress, he or she has no special position...
Except for trees which in 15 centuries have grown thickly upon it, the road was sufficiently smooth for motor driving. Directly in line with the recently discovered great causeway running southward from Coba past Lake Xkanha, this road seems part of a great Mayan passage towards Ixil. At the road's end is a flight of stone steps going up a dilapidated pyramid 70 feet high. At its top Mayan priests had the habit of tearing the hearts from living human sacrifices, of offering the warm and bloody things to an idol, and of heaving the maimed bodies into...
...should be ten times more precious to her than to any one else? But Alice Liddell, like all the other people in the world, lives in a wonderland where summer afternoons remain remembered only, and where there are not always boats and lawns and lovely stories. Alice Liddell, married, grown old, the mother of two sons who died in the War, had very little money; she had to sell the book her friend had given her. Going away from Sotheby's auction rooms, she looked as startled as the other Alice might have looked on the Queen...
Frank Bartlette Willis, farmer's son, was "home grown" even more consciously and thoroughly than his outstanding contemporaries, Warren G. Harding and James M. Cox. He did not live to outgrow Ohio, like a William Howard Taft or a Theodore Elijah Burton. He would have resented the suggestion that he could ever outgrow Ohio. He died as he could only have wished to die, of red fire and political excitement, just after shaking the hand and naming the name of every member of the Delaware Kiwanis Club. Governor and Senator he had been. Anti-Saloon League champion and lion...