Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such courses as Economics. English Composition, French, and Fine Arts. Only for these courses the student could be asked to pay. "Each lecturer may be allowed by the Trustee to receive a small sun from each scholar, who can afford it, not exceeding the value of two bushels of wheat for the course of six months." The value was determined by the Trustee to be five dollars, and that remains the tuition fee down to the present...
...Texas' drought-parched cattle and wheat country, the rainfall averaged more than two inches. In southwestern Missouri's burned-out dairy land, weather stations reported up to an inch. From .5 to 1.5 inches fell across the Great Plains. In New England and down the eastern seaboard to Virginia, the fall averaged two inches...
...drought-disaster areas, everyone knew that one rain does not break a drought, but farmers and townsfolk alike drew a deep, fresh breath and hoped. The rain was too late to help this year's crops, but in many areas it settled the blowing topsoil, helped the winter wheat and the pastures, and started the long process of replenishing the subsoil moisture...
...imagine how they obtained copies of the Registers," Wheat continued. "The only people we sold books to in the New York area were the Harvard Clubs...
Yearbook officers' parents were also victims of the sales drive. Wheat's parents had themselves received a portrait of their son taken two years ago in the Indoor Athletic Building by the Yearbook...