Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...determined but estimates have ranged around $3 per acre. In theory the farmer who last year harvested 1,000 acres of wheat will get more by raising only 700 this year and collecting Government rent on 150. Declares Secretary Wallace: "The taking out of acreage on a wide scale is one necessary line of attack. I don't contemplate such reduction of acreage as meaning that we permanently forsake our foreign markets. . . . In reducing the production of hogs, the best method may be for the Government to pay the hog producer rent on a specified amount of his corn...
...given much time and thought to developing prize seed corn. As a boy he was impressed by the fact that judges always seemed to pick the best looking ear rather than the one that promised the biggest yield. By crossbreeding he perfected a seed corn which now sells far & wide throughout Iowa. Wrote he: "Show corn ideals deal too much with beauty and too little with utility. Whether corn has smooth or rough kernels means very little more than the presence or absence of a dimple on a pretty girl." He is the author of Corn and Corn Growing, What...
...Grown principally on the Pacific Coast and in upper New York State. †The best brewing barley is grown mostly in Iowa. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana, California. *Only a little over 2% of U. S. production. Beer like ice is mostly a local product, though it can be shipped far & wide as Budweiser was. *Phonetic spelling of his last name...
...Psychology with laboratory work, and in psychophysiology. It can be seen from the foregoing remarks that a number of courses in other fields must be related to Psychology. Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, parts of Biology may all be counted by the department as related to psychology for concentration. Thus a wide course is open to those in the department...
...University, last week got into the nation's news as the battleground of an organization called the Paul Reveres. Founded four months ago in Glencoe, Ill., a smaller Chicago suburb seven miles north of Evanston, the Paul Reveres tub-thump against Communism and "subversive activities." Planning a nation-wide organization, they made a Colonel E. M. Hadley their president. In January, Evanston got its chapter, headed by one John A. Kappelman, insurance broker. Far from unusual in thesis or technique, the Evanston Reveres made news by choosing for their target one of the Methodist Church's ablest preachers...