Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...whenever there is need, to remove the burdens by whose weight the usefulness of the Reading-Room is impaired. The generous response which this call has already met with but indicates that the old true spirit of Harvard is still here, and shames the shamelessness of those men who sow only where they can receive a lion's share of the harvest...
...troops marched on through Milk Street, by the old Davenport tavern, at the corner of North Avenue and Beech Street, and so out of Cambridge. There is a "fine, old, crusted story" to the effect that, on the road, some of the officers met a countryman sowing grain. "Ho, fellow! " says one of the officers, "you may sow, but we shall reap!" "Wa'al," replied the native, "p'raps you will; I'm sowing hemp...