Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stand" refers to the density of stalks in a field, as "a thin stand," "a heavy stand...
...study and announced its June estimates for 1925 grain crops. The most interest was displayed in the wheat estimate, for the emissaries of agriculture traveling through the wheat belt had found the winter wheat, which constitutes about two thirds of the wheat produced in this country, short of stalk, thin in stand†, short of head-, with heads not well filled or empty...
...career there in the days when the Kaiser perniciously interfered in the work of every studio. Fuchs at length obtained permission from the imperial megalomaniac to execute a silver equestrian statuette; his reputation was made. He went to Rome, was patronized by yellow Italian noblemen with peaked eyes and thin noses; Queen Margherita came to see his work; John Singer Sargent encouraged him to remove to London. There he sculped everyone of consequence. His book bristles with passages like the following...
Prince of Bourbon was as clean a horse as you could wish to see-small head, thin hock, deep chest, round blue hoof; moreover, he was being ridden in the famed $50,000 Belmont Stakes (Belmont Park, L. I.) by Earl Sande, who has been called, not without justice, "world's greatest jockey." So it seemed curious that obliging gentlemen with receipt-books were willing to offer $10 to every $1 of yours that Prince of Bourbon would not win the race. But if you thought that American Flag, for instance-swift...
...Thin Legs and Fat Legs...