Word: lowlanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Picker, In lowland fields, cotton crops ripen unevenly, cannot be picked all at the same time. The mechanical picker had to be so de-signed that it would discriminate between ripe and unripe bolls. On the new machine, two arms reach out and gather in the spreading branches of the cotton bushes. Two vertical, revolving cylinders spined with close-set spindles, brush along the branches gently. The cylinders slide backwards horizontally on their bases at the same speed as the whole machine is moving forward. This saves the branches from being torn off the bushes. By the time the cylinders...
...concession was withdrawn. The new move is an attempt to provide the people with "pure stuff" at popular prices.- Robbers. From the gaunt heights of wild Kurdistan, a mountainous district lying partly in Turkey and partly in Iraq, a bold band of brigands swooped down upon the lowland villages, terrorizing the inhabitants. Then, gathering up their loot the lusty robbers staggered back into their impregnable fastnesses. In Angora the authorities fumed, impotent...
...house bobbing down the Mississippi, headed toward the Gulf of Mexico. Soon other houses followed, plus bodies of drowned cattle, plus debris of every description. For the Mississippi, rain-swollen, high-rising, was flood from Cairo, Ill., to the Gulf of Mexico. Many a levee "went out," thousands of lowland acres turned into lakes, 24,000 refugees appealed to the Red Cross for aid, eleven lives were lost...
First Wayfarer: "Yes, there's probably not a passable street in all Lowland...
tTokyo's poor dwell on the flats commonly called Lowland, on both sides of the River Sumida...