Word: low
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people cannot get enough food. This is seldom because they have too little land. Usually it is because their social organization and farming methods are ineffective. India is a hungry country, but it is not permanently overpopulated. It has much potentially good land whose present yields are pathetically low. India averages only ten bushels of wheat an acre while Denmark gets 50. India's rice yield is only 750 Ibs. an acre, one-quarter as good as Japan's. A little fertilizer and some simple improvements in agricultural technique would make a huge difference to India...
...working model is a low-slung, 25-ft.-long, electric-motored contraption which travels on caterpillar tracks. It has two horizontal rows of rotary steel drills which chew out the coal and sweep it on to a conveyor, which carries it over the tail of the machine into mine cars...
Robert P. Hyde '51, co-chairman of the PBH drive, chalked up Harvard's comparative low turn-out to blood donation regulations. "Donors can't eat for four hours beforehand, and they can't have alcohol for a day before giving blood," he explained...
Although the "Cliffe front line pushed the ball down-field rapidly, failure to rush the goal kept the score low. Confusion caused by the continually shifting Jackson backfield also prevented the Annex team from rolling up more points...
...Hooper termed Herter's voting record on such issues as housing and rent control "conservative." We believe, on the contrary, that a vote for all amendments to weaken OPA, to lift price ceilings on existing homes for sale, against Government subsidy of low cost housing, and for the Walcott "kill rent control" bill is reaction, pure and simple...