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Word: pitchfork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most dangerous of all occupations is farming, according to Dr. John Howard Powers of the Bassett Hospital. Highest number of occupational deaths throughout the U. S. occurs among agricultural workers. But what hurts the farmers most often is not a reaper or a pitchfork, but a reckless motorist hurtling through country lanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Country Care | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...gripping Spanish ground with talons, showed bayonets advancing in daylight over a peaceful plowman to drive away Death (see cut}. For Point VIII, "Through agrarian reform to liquidate the old semifeudal aristocratic estates," Artist Renau produced his most effective picture: a smiling, stubble-faced farmer holding a rustic pitchfork, with furrows ribboning behind toward a village and three bulls stylized with long morning shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 13 Points in Montage | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...representative at the London conference, at which Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy presided, was Albert Gain Black, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. A drawling, scholarly man whose hair is the color of July wheat. Economist Black, 42, took to farming almost before he could wield a pitchfork, taught agricultural economics at Iowa State College for four years, joined the AAA's inner council in 1935. Well-qualified to expound the ever-normal granary plan to the London delegates, Economist Black nevertheless failed to convince them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROPS: Grandiose Scheme | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...mural shows the President at the centre having his picture taken, while Harry Hopkins and James Roosevelt welcome arrivals into a New Deal Heaven. Cherubs above the President's head are Vice President Garner and Postmaster General Farley. In the right hand corner Herbert Hoover, with pitchfork, smiles at Alf Landon on the brink of a fiery pit containing Al Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Recessional | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...tenth and twelfth, finish the fight on his feet after another knockdown in the 18th. The winner was Pedro Montanez, nicknamed Don Diablo (Sir Devil), of Puerto Rico. He had exhibited the agility of a hellion dancing on hot coals, a punch as persuasive as a red-hot pitchfork. The fight with Venturi was his 23rd professional appearance in the U. S., his 23rd victory. Almost inevitably it will be rewarded by a chance to win the lightweight championship currently held by awkward, indefatigable Lou Ambers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Don Diablo | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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