Word: harvester
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been beheaded on Chen's order, he cried, "Really, it's hard to be kind to such people. We must make an example!" No heavy sword or ax could be found. A bayonet was considered, then rejected. Finally a heavy, short-bladed sickle, used to harvest wheat, was fashioned into an executioner's tool. While fellow informers watched, Hunchback Chen's head was hacked...
...long-continued selection. Inca customs may have helped the process consciously. Young men who wanted to join the orejones (warrior caste) had to fast for four days, climb several mountains, and then wrestle on an empty stomach. There was also a system of genetic selection. During the avocado harvest, young men and girls danced naked among the avocado trees. Then the girls, given a head start, dashed up the nearest mountain. Any man might possess the girl he caught-if he had enough energy left by that time...
...they worked, Farmer Morrison, short, fat and overalled, wore a worried look. The harvest of his months-long labor was in the hands of an outsider: Thomas L. Dupree, a big (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (228 lbs.) tramp harvester who had come in from Kansas with his caravan of combines, trucks and harvest hands. But Morrison's worries were nearly over. Swiftly, Dupree and his crew cut the grain, loaded it into their trucks, and hauled it to the elevator a few miles away. When a crack in the truck body let out a thin trickle of wheat...
...Tramp's Job. Last week Dupree and 2,400 other self-contained tramp caravans like his were busy getting in the Oklahoma harvest, part of the greatest wheat crop in U.S. history. The Department of Agriculture raised its estimates of its size once more, this time to 1,409,000,000 bushels. The job would not have been done without the cutters who have taken the place of the old migrant harvest hands. The business was born during the war, when wheat farmers expanded their acreage far beyond what they could harvest with their own machinery (TIME, July...
April-showers, and May-flower time brought a fresh harvest of Crimson victories. On the cinders, coach Mikkola's lads began scourging the Ivy League with prewar vitality. While his assistant Ed Flanagan worked with the weightmen, Mikkola waved the magic wand over javelin throwers and polevaulters. The Crimson disposed of Yale, swept the Nonagonals, and then went on to roll up 24 points in the 44-college IC4A championships at Philadelphia for a third-place tie with Penn State. Harvard track had rebounded from its wartime pygmy status with a vengeance...