Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...commendation. The desire to live for one's nation in a truck-garden rather than dying for the same cause in a trench shows a proper philosophic regard for the value of human life. One can fight with potatoes as well as bombs and reap the harvest wheat instead of an unkind enemy...
...ways of the draft bill are indeed far-reaching. Who would have thought it had the power to stop the lamented rush to the big cities? However, our farmers must smell, not the conventional nigger in the woodpile, but slackers in the wheat-fields...
...kept supplied with food, munitions and all the materials essential to our common success. To accomplish this, serious transportation problems by land and water must be solved. One of the most serious problems confronting us is the threatened shortage of foodstuffs. Owing to the failure of the winter wheat crop, one-third of which is ruined, we probably will not even be able to raise the six and one-half bushels of wheat per capita which the people of the United States consume annually. To meet the emergency, every effort must be made to stimulate production, avoid waste, and better...
...CRIMSON reporter yesterday said that to make possible the enlistment of men in Government service, the United States must cut down on luxuries, and probably resort to female employment when possible. He also said that our greatest help to the Allies in the food problem would be to raise wheat which is their greatest need at present...
...joint meeting of the Harvard and Radcliffe Socialist Clubs will be held in Agassiz House, Radcliffe, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. C. Wheat 2L and A. C. Binder 1Dv, who were recently sent to Washington as peace delegates from the Harvard Union for American Neutrality will be the principal speakers. A general open discussion on the present international crisis will follow, with a view to drawing up convincing arguments to prove that the United States should not enter the war. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...