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Word: maining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farm Bill. Main spur to the Senate Agriculture Committee was the antilynching filibuster on the floor, which could be ended only by the introduction of a Farm Bill. After a week of feverish work, the subcommittees finally had a bill ready to report which the full committee was expected to bring in this week. Based on regional hearings held before the session started, it included provisions for control by the Department of Agriculture of five major crops: wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Days | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Birds are the only restraining force on these harmful pests, for noxious insects form their main diet. Ninety-eight per cent of the wren's meals are these dangerous caterpillars, and thus they are reduced to a harmless minimum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: L. B. Fletcher Cites Birds As Preservers of Civilization | 11/27/1937 | See Source »

...director of the gymnasium, pointed out, however, that the main attraction is the calisthenic class held every afternoon from 5 to 6 o'clock. In the class Cox puts the men through the same exercises that the crew men take, and it is expected that the latter will soon report to the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cox Supervises Large-Scale Hemenway Athletic Program | 11/24/1937 | See Source »

...fumes in the basement corridors of Lowell House Monday were caused by a dead-end main on Holyoke Street leaking through the wall of the cellar it was reported today. Up to early yesterday morning workmen of the Cambridge Gas Company were drilling and shopping the street in front of the Cambridge Athletic Building in an effort to remedy the hazard. There is no gas piped into Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gas Leaks in Lowell | 11/24/1937 | See Source »

Although several of the team's main props, including Robert Shaw '37 and Charley Rogers '37, graduated last year, Captain Emerson and Colin MacClaurin '38 remain to bear the brunt of the competition. It is expected that there will be additional good material among the 150 skiers who reported on Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Have Promising Season Ahead As Cox Becomes First Regular Coach | 11/24/1937 | See Source »

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