Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...September the farmer pauses an instant in his harvest race against crop-withering frosts, to consider his year. Spring broke tardily everywhere in the U. S. Summer was generally satisfactory, in spite of brief searings of drouth in the central plains and musty weather in the south. At present boll weevils and hopper fleas are damaging the cotton crop to a small extent. In the northwest and in Canada rains worry the prairie farmers, as he prepares to harvest his grains. Elsewhere crop conditions are satisfactory...
...winter wheat 398,486,000 bu. last year; sold currently at $1.40 to $1.45 a bushel. The U. S. leads the world in production. Next is India with one half as much. Kansas leads the U. S. for winter wheat, North Dakota for spring wheat. Harvest is almost completed in the North and West. In the Dakotas and Minnesota the crop (spring) was short on account of dry weather, although showers helped the late crop of North Dakota. Dry weather persisted in Montana, but low temperature saved the stands. Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia report fat crops...
...Protestant Episcopal Church "as idle as a painted picture?" Have Christians forgotten that they are "saved to serve?" Are the "fields ripe for the harvest?" These are some of the trenchant questions provoked by Bishop Darst's letter. Well aware that, as compared with New Testament times, "the Church today is incomparably rich in money, organization, influence, power," he pointed out that it is "failing to produce anything like Apostolic results...
...whole Church-not just a few individuals-must be awakened and aroused to its duty to spread the Evangel. This means nothing less than a complete change of mind, a reorientation of our whole attitude, a new baptism of the Spirit. . . . Viewing the fields already ripe to the harvest, we would offer ourselves as reapers, saying individually and corporately-'Here am I; send...
...slay Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan (TIME, Jan. 7, 1924). Though Daisuke was found guilty at an extraordinary session of the Supreme Court and hanged, his father, broken with grief and shame, resigned from the Diet, and enjoined upon his family and himself a voluntary retirement until Death should harvest their lives...