Word: hoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city dweller, an agricultural implement may be a hoe or a pitchfork. But the implement industry thinks of itself in terms of reapers, harvesters, threshers, trucks and tractors-particularly tractors. Its business is essentially the mechanization of the farm, the replacement of four-legged power by power obtained from oil and gasoline engines. Its goal is the technological obsolescence of the horse...
...competitor for the Ed Board does not have a hard row to hoe. One editorial a night on a college subject for the first few weeks, and then two a night as the candidates become weeded out. Criticism of a purely destructive nature, and incidentally in case you hadn't realized it, this is the most stimulating and valuable type there is, is given by the editors, and we hope you profit...
Died. Mrs. Olivia Phelps James Hoe, 98, charitarian widow of Robert Hoe III, maker of Hoe newspaper presses; after brief illness; in Lake Placid...
...patrons who usually make up his board of directors. He must, therefore, cater to these people, and with the money thus placed at his disposal, (usually with innumerable strings attached) he tries to maintain in the execution of his tasks not too unpopular quality standards. A difficult row to hoe...
Birthdays. Edwin Markham (The Man with the Hoe), 83; Clarence Darrow, 78; May Robson, 70; Adolf Hitler, 46 (see p. 15); Shirley Temple...