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Word: reiterate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tractor-drawn stone-picking machine has been invented, whose revolving teeth can remove as much as twelve tons of egg-to head-sized rocks per hour from the top three inches of soil. Produced by Otis F. Reiter, a onetime Maryland farm boy with a piercing memory of stone-picking backaches, the machine has been hailed by farm journals as the greatest agricultural invention since the tractor. In this machine some experts see hope for a revival of Eastern agriculture, whose decline they blame largely on stony soil. Stoneless soil is 18% more productive than soil 30% full of stones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Help for Farmers | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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