Word: plowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machinery Age of iron! Heart of iron! The machine has become a monstrous idol. It must be done away with. Thousands of years ago India learned the art of self control and mastered the science of happiness. India must go back to the sources of her ancient culture--the plow and the spinning wheel...
...life?an impulse fulfillment could only spoil it. Her power faded from him?after all, he was made for work (he thought), not for happiness. So he stayed with Joan whole-heartedly?and was happy as well. True, the centaur was tamed at last?broken to the plow. But Jeffrey wrote better poetry...
...acres have been cleared of projectiles, trenches and barbed wire, leaving less than 1,000,000 acres to be cleared; 19,920 out of 22,160 factories have been rebuilt; more than 1,235,000 acres out of 4,941,000 of devastated farmlands have been put under the plow; the main railway system has been repaired; nearly all the water ways made navigable; of 36,450 miles of ruined roads, 19,743 have been restored to traffic and 8,671 improved...
...science of making a hundred bushels of wheat grow where ten grew before. Then turning to the other camp, he would have them produce this literature which is to be the force. They should appreciate the work that our pioneers have done. "For the 'bore' of 1850, the plow and hammer; for his sons, the pursuit of happiness." It is they who have laid the foundations for the present generation. Be sure, O present generation, that you do not stray too far from the "moral idealism" or these sturdy forebears who did not suffer from complexes and an overdoes...
According to a Patent Office report, women, during the past ten years, have invented 1,400 different "new and useful articles" ranging from a rotary plow share to an eggbeater. Among the articles are included a cow tail holder, a reinforced wooden bowl for beating eggs in and an artificial eyelash. The variety shows that women's activities in America are spreading out and cover every field of occupation and endeavor. "Children, church and kitchen" are no longer what they used to be. Eventually, perhaps, some clever woman will invent a satisfactory substitute for all three...