Word: stalked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indirect effect of this corn stalk utilization is the prevention of pesty corn borer spread. Stover rotting in the fields carries the borer over from one growing season to the next...
...Modern Cincinnatus. This one, swart, short, mustachioed, had played a different game from theirs, a waiting game. Redskin ancestors on his grandmother's side had doubtless played the same game often. Out hunting with other braves, a good plan had been to let the others stalk, and perhaps frighten, the deer, which then would come along the runway where an artful man sat ready. The Indian-blooded Senator from Kansas had seen the waiting game work well on race tracks, too. Riding as a jockey himself, he had watched two faster horses wear each other out, then whipped...
Other Harvard canes, especially Hrvd No. 12.029, have not only produced much greater yields in tonnage per caballeria (33 1-2 acres) than Cristalina cane, but have in addition greatly expected that variety in actual sugar content and purity of juice in the stalk...
...supposes that Claire will have to content herself with one of the numerous flood-created bachelors who stalk woman-hungry through the book; but the last page of this palpitating yarn brings a grand climax that sends the reader's imagination reeling off upon further and seemingly inevitable crises and conflicts...
...Gimbel family is like an artichoke. Its stalk was Adam Gimbel who immigrated from Bavaria in 1840 and opened a store at Vincennes, Ind. He raised seven sons who huddled together in department store ownership, first at Milwaukee, later in Philadelphia, in Manhattan, and lastly Pittsburgh (TiME, Dec. 14, 1925). The sons raised their many sons, and kept them snugly in the family enterprises...