Word: upland
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...times. He was interested, beyond dilettantism, in agriculture, architecture, languages, literature, music, religion, astronomy, zoology, chemistry, mathematics. He designed Monticello, filled it with inventions like the first dumbwaiter, first swivel chair, a weather vane which could be read by a dial indoors. He introduced the first upland rice and cork oak to U.S. soil...
Riding Thai war elephants, slithering through the upland jungles afoot, backed up by slit-eyed little Siamese soldiers from feckless Thailand, the invaders swarmed through the mountain passes on the Thailand-Burma border. They struck directly at Moulmein, about 170 miles east of Rangoon by the railroad around the Gulf of Martaban. Every Briton, every Colonial in the force that backed up before his advance knew what the enemy was after...
Last week Japan offered subsidies of $20 an acre for the conversion of mulberry groves into cereal patches. The Government wants a 20% shift into wheat, beans and other vegetables which, like mulberry trees, can be grown on Japan's hilly, upland plots. (Rice, the Japanese staple, must be grown under water, takes up most of the Empire's flat, lowland acreage.) Cereals, which hungry Japanese could eat, were obviously better than silk which Japan could not sell...
...upland prairie grew a golden harvest whose rich yield ( 20 to 40 bushels an acre) would more than make up for lowland losses. The crops were weeks ahead. Between rains the farmers worked night & day to keep the lush weeds from choking out the grain. In wheat towns, movies did a booming business while the rain came down, keeping farmers from their fields...
...Kansas, where the silo cutters droned, where plowing was under way for 1941's winter wheat, where upland corn burned out in July's drought, where the sorghums were good and cattle brought the best price in years, there were arguments hotter than political disputes over the best kind of wheat-Tenmarq, which the State College has pushed, Chiefkan, which farmers found more profitable. In Ohio, with its 255,000 farms (1.03 autos per farm, .66 tractors, .31 trucks), where late spring rains delayed corn and soybean planting, where the corn crop was down...