Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over yonder in the harvest field...
Stagesweeper Hustie Finley doubled on the flute last night as Eliot House opened its Christmas festivities with an uproarious rendition of Ben Johnson's "Bartholemew Fair." Messrs. Alcorn, Kilty, and Spencer, and "Esquire" Martin, who "looked begotten on a cart at harvest time," led a cast of 28 under the direction of Maestro Allegretti...
Thanks to a bountiful autumn harvest, they would have from 1,500 to 1,700 calories a day (a little more than the U.S. zone of Germany). But housing would be as great a problem as it had been in the first confused winter of defeat. The work of rebuilding Japan from its rubble had barely begun. Reconstruction, hampered by lack of materials and tools, by strikes, and by requirements of the occupation force, stood at only 13%; industry at 30%. The occupation army required 90% of the cement and metal piping, much of the wiring, nearly...
...boyhood in the Welsh countryside, his passionate faith in the Freudian conception of life as a struggle between the desire to procreate and the desire to find oblivious peace in death. Wholly absent from his poems are humor and political ideology: he reduces his rich and strange harvest of influences and beliefs simply to a "record of my individual struggle from darkness towards some measure of light"-the struggle of any natural growth...
Apple cider, commonly associated in New England environs with the first Pilgrim Harvest, was also in evidence about College rooms. One straitened but ingenious host placed a quart in his closet uncorked. "It'll be better next year, the natural reward for abstinence," said the Economics major...