Word: sown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honorary President Emile Martin glared at Miss Wilson's snood and leaped to his feet after her talk to present a resolution damning snoods. Even the fluttered Miss Wilson voted aye. But some observers felt the hairdressers had reaped the whorlwind they had sown...
Many a Wall Street broker visualizes himself as a modern Sisyphus in a special kind of New Deal Hell: endlessly rolling a Business boulder up a WPA hill built too steep by Federal spending, sown too thickly with SEC hazards, watered so heavily with Federal supervision that the boulder continually slips out of his hands and rolls back into Depression...
From the ranks of those who answered the postcards in the affirmative, P. B. H. has a nucleus of administrators for any program they may wish to undrtake. Now that the first step has been taken and the seed sown, the future success of the committee in solving the difficult problem of acclimation depends largely upon the wisdom of their subsequent program of action...
...provide food for the new land, fields of poppies were ploughed under and sown to rice. For raw materials engineers scoured the back country, opened up veins of coal, iron, copper, salt, many small oil wells...
...soon to show modern designs that would have all the fine qualities of the flowing period of an artistic development, this is the most important phase in the growth of an architectural period as the seed from which the ultimate flower is to spring is being sown...