Word: hay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kinda early leaving the hay...
...annual report, the Record, listed 476 former New College men in the armed forces and eight killed in action, added that: "There being no artificial light out of doors, the beauty of the architecture by moonlight is remarkable." Magdalen College has let the Magdalen ground go to hay, formed a joint crew and a joint cricket team with...
...program with Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard and Surgeon General Thomas Parran (just back from England), covering Britain's food needs and U. S. ability to supply them. At the Department of Agriculture, experts pointed to U. S. grain reserves (greatest in history), to stocks of fats, oils, hay, meat supplies. If food was a weapon, the U. S. was well armed. Question was: Could the U. S. use this weapon as effectively for democracy as the Nazis use hunger against...
Seated on the terrace one night last January was a foursome that might have stepped direct from Maugham's pages. One was sun-bronzed, handsome Josslyn Victor Hay, 39, 22nd Earl of Erroll, Hereditary High Constable of Scotland (a title conferred on his family in 1314 by Robert Bruce). He was a veteran of Mayfair, the Continental casinos, the English hunting fields and African big-game trails. Twice married, once divorced, and a recent widower, he owned and worked a large Kenya cattle farm, was active in Kenya's Legislative Council, and like a true sportsman lamented Nairobi...
...simple device which shows farmers the moisture content of their grains and forage, enabling them to judge proper time for harvest and storage. (Many a barn is set alight by spontaneous combustion of hay, stored too wet.) With the new gadget, invented by Ohio Agronomist Robert Q. Parks, the farmer can test his crops quickly in the field by adding water-hungry calcium carbide to plant tissue, which then loses weight in proportion to its moisture content...