Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times such as the present, when money is very generally seeking investment, the security swindler plans to reap his harvest. Already the published tax lists have provided many valued suggestions to the Caesars as to the meat whereon they may feed. Promoters are becoming active in the ever-fruitful Middle West. In spurious securities as in women's hats, fashions come and go. The great oil stock mania has apparently burned itself out, but in its place has arrived a credulity concerning fake land companies, ingenious but unsalable patent devices with "millions in it," and other corporate novelties...
...reaping? Fortunes were a making, but not many, men said. The pools, of course, came in for the main harvest. William C. Durant, motors man, was known to have profited on paper by between 10 and 12 millions in his remarkable "one-man pool" in U. S. Cast Iron Pipe...
...Missouri Valley, Nebraska's thunderous, cornhusking eleven pulled itself together after a dismaying first Quarter, sent Rhodes and Bloodgood ripping through for a belated harvest. Captain Bond of Missouri persistentfy disputed his team's first defeat. Score: Nebraska 14, Missouri...
...last Harvard undergraduates have had their face slapped with the iron glove of indifference. The showing at the Union for the Princeton rally was not only a disgrace to the team, which has been out on that field sweating and working to help Harvard harvest the honor and victory which is due to her, but was a disgrace to every individual who was not there...
...undersigned farmer members of the Bluffton Baptist Church, hereby agree to plant, cultivate and harvest one acre from our farm, said acre to be known as the Lord's acre. We agree to turn the proceeds of said acre in to a committee appointed by the Church. They are to dispose of same and distribute the funds derived from it in such a way as we may instruct...