Word: harvester
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From a careful study of the situation, it appears that there is not enough labor seeking employment on the farms to harvest the crops this year. If we can not get men from the colleges and cities who are physically able to work on these farms, the crops will not be saved, and if the crops are lost, it will be almost as bad as if we lose the battle now raging in the West...
Finally, action to be effective must be immediate. Farmers will not plant this spring the crops we need unless they are first given definite assurance of the men and machinery to harvest them...
...many years it has been a matter of regret that Thanksgiving Day, instead of being a religious festival, suited to the harvest season, was deteriorating into an excuse for over-eating. The original significance of the day had been overlaid with football games to such an extent that the Pilgrim fathers would have had hard work to recognize...
...wisdom that is not their own, to an end that they may not see. Principalities and republics are stirred by the desire for revolution, though the result of the revolving is hidden. Surely in this unrest of the nations there is ground and seed for the harvest...
...educational universities show a nearly normal registration owing to the great increase of women students over last year. Several of the western institutions have also made a great effort to bring undrafted students back to their studies and they anticipate an increase in registration after the close of the harvest season. Reports of college registration indicate that the entering class is, in nearly every case, of normal size, but that the upper classes have suffered heavily. In a few cases the loss in the upper classes is offset by an exceptionally large freshman class...