Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record for that date.'' The July 1 wheat estimate-484,000,000 bu., about half a normal crop-had already told the story of the U. S. wheat farmer. The corn estimate-2,100,000,000 bu.-was by last week a piece of outdated optimism. The potato crop in upper New York State, in New Jersey, on Long Island was suffering severely. Massachusetts had to close all its forests to the public because of the fire hazard. On the Pacific Coast the fruit crop had already suffered considerably. In April and May drought had been a local...
...year was 1898; the month, December; the place, Paris. A woman with blue eyes and blonde hair, and a dark, bearded man worked in taut silence in a place described as a ''cross between a horse stable and a potato cellar.'' The walls were of rough planks; the glass roof, patched in places, leaked when it rained. There were three battered deal tables covered with apparatus, a few chairs, a pot-bellied stove. On the asphalt floor lay coarse mats...
...Gentlemen, the answer comes back clear and strong. Back to the soil! Let every one cast away his yachts, racing cars and jewels, and go out into the fields and how the lowly potato, milk the noble cow, and feed the treacherous pig. Let our men best their walking sticks into ploughshares, and let our women turn in their card tables for threshing machines. Let us open our shirts at the throat and sing as the cool winds of Heaven caress our hot foreheads. Back to the soil! Live as our forefathers did! Wrest a living from the land! Such...
...fetched a potato scales and weighed the lot in the clothesbasket: 13 Ib. 6 oz. The Dionne roosters were crowing for dawn while Dr. Dafoe washed up, eased his suspenders, donned his coat and drove back to his wifeless, book-filled home. He needed a little sleep, for later that day he expected another confinement...
Horse chestnuts or pieces of potato carried in the pocket, brass or copper rings on the fingers, or copper plates in the shoes to prevent rheumatism...