Word: harvestings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...causing readjustments to take place in the brittle rock base of Earth's 60-mile crust.* There was much rain everywhere last winter and spring. In Germany, Jugoslavia and Mexico, heavy summer rains last week swelled rivers and lakes far above their margins, flooding mankind out of house, harvest and life. At León, Mexico, the Santiago and Gomez rivers burst out upon inhabitants by night, sweeping cattle and humans through the streets, crumbling adobe structures beneath falling walls of water. Confused despatches estimated the destruction far above the flood of 1889 when hundreds of Leónites...
...fondest hope that Heaven and its Holy Trinity will always protect their peaceful homes, their grazing flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, their joyful vineyards and fields of golden grain, which are now preparing for the merry harvest season. May the happy harvest songs of their busy busy boys and honey-hearted girls soon resound from one end of Jugoslavia to the other, praising the Lord for his abundant harvest blessings...
Last week, in Fort Worth, Tex., the ponderous right hand of World's Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey described a motion that sportsmen had begun to believe it might never describe again. After hours spent thrashing the harvest in advance, Champion Dempsey reached for a pen and signed an agreement to fight another fight. A second dotted line was signed by Promoter Tex Rickard of Manhattan. No place, no opponent was named, but Dempsey committed himself to encounter either of the two logical challengers-Gene Tunney or Harry Wills-and Rickard indicated that either his New Madison Square Garden...
...sold seven, at $100 apiece. The family farm became a rural factory, turning out 29 machines in 1843, 50 in 1844. Then Cyrus McCormick bestrode his horse and rode into the Midwest. He saw the vast prairies, saw hogs turned loose in wheat that men had not time to harvest. He rode through Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Ohio and New York proclaiming the reaper, calling...
...flowing the wrong way. But it was busy and McCormick saw that it was good. After two minutes' talk, Chicago's first mayor, William B. Ogden, bought a half partnership and McCormick proceeded to build his factory. They sold $50,000 worth of reapers for the next harvest...