Word: markes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when farmers planted for war. The Mississippi flood of 1927 caused this sharp difference. The report remarked: "Expansion of acreage is not always desirable, and the expansion this year in the case of certain crops-notably potatoes-was definitely undesirable. Expansion of acreage, however, is at least a mark of confidence in the future of agriculture. The increase was pretty well distributed throughout the country and was divided among cotton, spring wheat, potatoes, and other leading crops. A decline representing a shift to more intensive crops took place in the acreage previously devoted...
...such a nature as to make the Eastern teams look foolish. The boys from beyond the Rockies did not seem to take the game as seriously as their rivals; nor did it appear necessary for them to do so. It was like watching the Princeton Varsity play against St. Mark's. A great horde filled the Yankee Stadium to watch the Oregon Aggies stop Ken Strong, push over the supposedly indestructible N. Y, U. line and score 25 points...
...Presidents from Cleveland on and talked with several; also Senators, famed preachers, Mark Twain, P. T. Barnum and many another less famed but, to him, equally important...
Sticks and stones were pressed into use to mark the goals, and somebody's stray overcoat was the best apology for a net that could be found. Wild shooting sent the pucks into orchards and meadows and deep tangled wildwoods beyond the confines of the pond rink and no sandlot baseball game was ever more defendant on the finding of the only ball in the party than was the Harvard hockey team on the luck of the seekers after lost pucks...
...launch's wake for the mighty splash of marlin, yellowtail or amberjack. But the splashes that came were comparatively small-a 15-pound dolphin, a 5-pound Spanish mackerel. A third fish, the "biggest one," got away. Beside Mr. Hoover in his launch stood and fished grey-templed Mark Sullivan, political pundit of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Just as Mr. Hoover's "biggest one" struck, Pundit Sullivan hooked a small but active dolphin. Unaware of any call for etiquette, the Sullivan dolphin rushed across the Hoover line, fouled it, dragged the new Hoover reel...