Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian Five Year Plan would take fifty years to explain and that New York would have to be reforested seventeen times to furnish enough pulp to make straw ballots, this election dope is child's play. I'll go on record right now as prophesying a victory for the silver tongued bond salesman from Hyde Park by 430 electoral votes. Because the Great Engineer denied torturing Chinese coolies, he will lose California and South Boston...
...Texas Panhandle chortled at the idea. But in 1931 they came from miles around to see the Price Plant in full blast (TIME, July 27, 1931). If they laughed then it was because of his vast, Bunyanesque scale of operations. Out in the field he had 25 silver-painted combines and 50 tractors, working day & night. Caravans of trucks lumbered to market with his wheat. Five messengers on motorcycles wove through the dust of three big Texas counties bearing messages for his field foremen, his mechanics, his troublespotters. When harvest was over that year and the 22,000 acres...
...sprouts. Then came fierce storms which pelted his fields with hail, knocking the kernels from their soft sheaves. Cutworms invaded his empire, devouring life-giving roots. Long, hot, cloudless weeks baked his rich soil until surviving stalks of wheat withered and died. When harvest time came most of his silver combines and tractors remained in his sheds. Only 3,000 acres had a crop worth reaping. They yielded but 11 bu. per acre...
Four are deans: at Rutgers, Walter Taylor Marvin; at Princeton, Christian Gauss, Augustus Trowbridge, Luther Pfahler Eisenhart. Three became headmasters: Emerson Boyd Morrow of Gilman, Louis Wardlaw Miles whom he succeeded, and Charles Hodge Jones of Silver Bay School (New York). Department heads at Princeton are Roger Bruce Cash Johnson (philosophy), Edward Samuel Corwin (politics), Duane Reed Stuart (classics), Robert Kilburn Root (English), Charles Rufus Morey (art & archaeology), Henry Norris Russell (astronomy), Charles Grosvenor Osgood Jr. (formerly English). Department heads elsewhere: Ernest Ludlow Bogart (economics, University of Illinois), George Dwight Kellogg (classics, Union University), Gilbert Ames Bliss (mathematics, University...
...tails. Blue fish bombard the pirate boat with caviar which they spit out of their mouths like cannon balls; flying fish, improved to resemble airplanes, take off smoothly from the flat spinal cord of a good-humored whale; octopi wave their arms like the propeller-blades of autogiros and silver swordfish saw down one mast of the pirates' boat. Finally Neptune causes a storm by stirring the water with one hand, thus sinking the pirates' boat which he uses for an arm chair when it reaches the bottom of his pale green, comfortable ocean...