Word: sown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That he reap where he hath sown...
...Eric the Red; Icelandic chief and settler of Greenland; also called "Leif the Lucky." Blown out of his course while returning from Norway in 1000 A. D. to Christianize Greenland, he reached a far-western land where "self-sown" wheat grew, and vines. He called it Vineland, later exploring it, wintering there-in southern Nova Scotia...
...fact that William B. Ward was named president of the new corporation, it was evident that that famed 41-year-old baker was carrying out his long-rumored plan of merging the great bakeries of the country and controlling their factory brands of the national life-staff from sown seed to delivered loaf. U. S. housewives still bake 50% of the bread, cake and pastry that is eaten. Baker Ward would attend to much of the rest...
...agrarian economic order is inflexible; while the quantity of its produce is capriciously flexible with the whims of nature. There is no accurate way of forecasting over-production until the seed is long sown. And if the disaster could be foreseen, farmers have no means of effective and beneficial crop limitation at hand. There can be little of the selling out, merging, and re-investing that characterizes industrial fluctuation and enables manufacturers to weather variations in demand without serious loss. Geographically, socially, personally, the farmers are both set and separate...
...crass and unbaked author may not have the "slightest desire to go to heaven" nor fear of hell, there is no danger of his going to either place, but one thing is as certain as the law of gravitation, and that is, that he will "reap what he has sown" in an effort to poison the minds of untrained thinkers?especially the young. Again the publishers' "ad" is unethical in that it says, "Send no money in advance," but when the postman comes $2.60 must be dug up in a hurry. This word is written in a kindly spirit...