Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctor of Laws. Citation: "Wise in his understanding of the needs of education and the arts; under his guidance the Carnegie Corporation has shown how private philanthropy may sow a rich harvest for the nation...
...harvest was bountiful in Scotland last autumn-134,000,000 hips weighing 200 tons were gathered before the Ministry of Health cried halt and further tons of hips were collected in England, so that this spring British druggists are marketing 600,000 bottles of hip syrup. Hips* are the soft scarlet, hairy fruit of the rose...
...scouts and women's services were sent on their finger-pricking harvest when British chemists found that rose hips are an absurdly rich source of vitamin C-400% richer than oranges (now rare as mangoes in Britain) and 300% richer than black currants (C-richest cultivated fruit). All this was reported in copies of Monthly Science News recently arrived in the U.S. from England...
...from the audience popped Stephen Fry, research director for British Broadcasting Corp., to speak a reflective word. Hatred sowed by radio, he said, might yield a hateful harvest. He was just as warmly applauded as Oboler had been...
...Hotchkiss boys are helping Connecticut farmers plant and harvest their crops...