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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peak levels, despite this year's reduced yield and the scare of a world wheat shortage. Latest crop estimate: 792,000,000 bu. compared to a final crop yield of 902,749,000 bu. last year. Market (Chicago, No. 2 red) last week, $1.42 bu.; last year, $1.62. Progress has been slow on the Board's formation of a National Farm Grain Growers Association to stabilize prices. Reason: difficulty of securing adequate storage space. Cotton. Prices were down due to a larger crop than was expected. Latest U. S. estimate: 14,915,000 bales. Latest traders' estimate...
...society to promote French culture. At the 21st birthday dinner of the Alliance Française Biographer Maurois who prides himself on his fluent, accentless English reported to his employers on the spread of the French language abroad. "I rejoice," said he, "that England is a country where real progress is being made in the study of correct, modern French. In Canada they speak French, but it is 17th Century French, adapted to new uses. . . . At Stockholm you hear the pedantic French of the old court. At Constantinople it is the French of the bootblack...
...inserted in the starting lineup at the last minute. The rangy center was in on every play and made the majority of the tackles for his team. Devens too turned in a good performance. The powerful Sophomore halfback was the only Crimson ball-carrier who could make any progress and it was only by dint of sheer strength that he plunged through the solid masses which confronted...
...organization, the differences of interest; all these seem to me to make the plan seem to be nothing further than a high conception, not to be carried out definitely until some period in the far distant future. It is only a beautiful ideal towards which the world can progress; for the tremendous difficulties, cultural, religious, and historical, seem too great to be overcome during the present...
...progress of the college has been marked by the irregularity of its development. Struggling through the early years of the last century it seemed for a time destined to be a little backwoods academy, without distinction of any kind, confining its scope to the education of the solid yeomanry of New Hampshire. About the size of Amherst and Williams, but without their academic prestige, Dartmouth was well on the way to obscurity...