Word: sows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meant that an acute stage has been reached in the crisis of agriculture v. industry. The peasants have refused to sow and sell a surplus of grain above their own needs unless offered manufactured goods in exchange. They have not been offered these goods in sufficient quantities, because not even Dictator Stalin has been able to spur Russian industry to adequate production. Therefore the Soviet State has recently fallen behind in its efforts to buy grain from the peasantry by poods...
...year" does not come until February?when it is observed with fireworks. Thus the thoughts of the docile, unoffensive people of China were not lightened by holiday fripperies, last week, but they were darkened and depressed by a grim certainty: it is at this season that Chinese leaders sow the seeds of those many civil wars which burst throughout China each summer as surely as snapdragons...
...Everyone is at work in the fields. Who sows not, neither reaps nor harvests. Our peasants are not deserters either in peace or in war. But it is not sufficient to work. It is necessary also to prepare the ground with the necessary fertilizers. It is necessary to sow well and in time...
...neglect since the war; the novels have not the satire of Thackeray's stories of London society, nor the luridness of Dickens tales of the slums; there is nothing but an unwavering view of the human heart, and a pervading sense of the law that we reap what we sow...
...Peterkin has fulfilled the implication of her sketch book with a tremendous painting, a mural in sharp tempera, upon which appears the entire population of an isolated plantation-all the huts, with the doors open, all the hearths, pots, newspapered walls and floor chinks; all the hound dogs, sow pens, butchered hogs, wood piles; all the murmurous lanes and sweaty cotton acres; the giggling creek, Blue Brook, and the threatening, dreamy big river with a sandy island and soaring fish hawks. The figures moving everywhere are dominated by a blue-black giant, April, the foreman and patriarch of the settlement...