Word: littering
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Wickard became a good farmer, won ten gold medals from the Farm Bureau for coaxing a yield of 100 bushels to the acre from his cornfields. He went in heavily for hogs, got into the ton-litter competition, won another half-dozen medals. In five years he had bought another 100 acres abutting his ancestral 280 and had paid off a $5,000 mortgage. In 1926 he became the second Carroll County farmer to be singled out for the Prairie Farmer's widely recognized distinction of "Master Farmer...
...design, will be assigned accordingly. Bushy-browed, big-nosed Thomas Mullen Woodward, Philadelphia lawyer, does the Commission's legal jobs, is charged with enforcement of control of foreign commerce. Ruddy, white-haired ex-Congressman John J. Dempsey handles the Commission's business affairs, walks around amid a litter of real-estate deeds, letters from Chambers of Commerce in cities where new yards are building, from Baltimore to Houston to Portland...
...executives who wish to impress visitors with a clean desk, Manhattan's Duplex Desk Co. designed a flat desk with an extra top which can be drawn over the usual litter at a moment's notice...
...director, Stanley Salmen, "have striven earnestly to improve the services which they provide for those undergraduates who have a ligitimate need for help," Dean Hanford said. "It has been their aim to offer advice and help of a constructive and permanent nature rather than to provide a crutch or 'litter' to support the student temporarily...
...gave each handshaker a big Texas grapefruit. One woman fell down and was tromped on; she became hysterical. Five more women fainted at the reception. Another broke her ankle when she jumped over a hedge. When the barbecue was over, the mansion grounds were covered with a vast litter of gnawed bones, pieces of meat, slices of onion, potato chips, paper napkins, paper plates. Then at night the crowd danced in the street, to the tune of hillbilly bands, by the light of the moon and of colored globes strung across the rear of the Capitol lawn...