Word: windrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spills & Falls. Motormaker Wilson is a cattle breeder (Ayrshires), and at Windrow Farms, 20 miles from Longmeadow, has the largest private herd in Michigan. He used to play a fast game of tennis, still fishes and hunts occasionally, and is a good swimmer. He gave up ice skating after breaking his hip in a fall, and reluctantly gave up riding to hounds with the Bloomfield Open Hunt after breaking his shoulder in a spill from a balky hunter...
...sugar-beet harvester that tops the beets, lifts them, shakes the dirt off, drops the beets in a hopper and tosses the tops in a windrow. It makes beet-picking so much cheaper that it may end the long fight over the sugar-beet tariff...
Since the matter is being worked out by each House individually, the various House Masters have developed different methods of organizing the plan. Lowell house members, for example, will receive a general letter stating that adjustments will have to be made; while the Windrow House men who already been selected for doubling-up will be notified of the fact...
...miles. He rode four times to Philadelphia; he could always be trusted to say the right thing. He rode to Durham N.H. to order a raid on the British fort at Portsmouth. Tired, he slept through the raid. He took part in the Boston Tea Party which "spread a windrow of tea from Boston all the way to Dorchester." Without sleep he started for Philadelphia to report what had happened...