Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that same West which was largely responsible for his nomination Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned last week for a harvest of discontented votes. Beyond the Mississippi lay his main chance of being elected the next President...
...silks safe within the tariff wall. Now the U. S. branch of the family business is four times as large as the sturdy Swiss parent. Of the fourth generation is blond, pink-cheeked Henry E. Stehli, able young secretary and treasurer of Stehli Silks Corp. To reap the harvest of rough crepe Stehli has recalled 2,000 workers, its mills have been stepped up to three shifts. Production in anticipation of another silk year is running 25% above rated capacity...
...absorbing topic among the 147,000,000 people of the U. S. S. R. last wee was Harvest. From masses of figures appearing daily in the official Press, no or could be quite sure whether there woul be enough sour black bread when winter comes. The United Press reported the the Government had only 45% of il planned requirements for July. Other reports were less prophetic of starvation...
...half the Kaye-Smith children's fun. Their simple growing love for the Sussex countryside and country people makes up the other half. Wherever they may come to live, their thoughts will dwell on Sussex, like Authoress Kaye-Smith's books: Sussex Gorse, Tamarisk Town, Green Apple Harvest, Joanna Godden, The End of the House of Alard, The Village Doctor, Shepherds in Sackcloth, Susan Spray. Even should Selina come to marrying a Sussex clergyman like Miss Kaye-Smith's husband, Rev. Theodore Penrose Fry, she would not follow him to London. She would, like her authoress...
...forced first the old men, then the women to work the fields, drive wavering plough-furrows through the hard earth. Madeline's white skin and plump cheeks turn weather-brown, her muscles harden. She is admired as the finest woman in the whole village. Sebastien, on harvest-leave, admires her too. But when a man admires a woman, he no longer wants her. This is but one of the tragedies that mutilate the lives of peasant women when their men are at war. Madeline sees it all, her thoughts confused by the presence of a squad of German prisoners...