Word: rye
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They found a good sugar-beet crop waiting for them, but all the sugar factories wrecked. They set women to harvesting standing wheat and rye, but they had to harvest with scythes and horses instead of modern machinery. They tried to get autumn sowing done, but only put in from 5% to 7% of normal seedings...
There was a terrible famine in 1891, when the rye and wheat crops failed. In a dozen provinces around Samara 30,000,000 peasants shrank on the bone and swelled in the belly. The great U.S. heart was touched. Money was raised, four ships of provisions and clothing sailed for St. Petersburg. But the Volga was far from the Mississippi and the aid came too late: thousands perished...
National Scholarship renewals were awarded to James S. Clarke 2M, of La Grange, Ill.; Martin E. Flipse 2M, of Douglaston, L.I., N.Y.; Winsor C. Schmidt 2M, of Rye, N.Y.; Louis E. Ward 3M, of Mt. Vernon, Ill.; Allan L. Friedlich Jr. 3M, of New York, N.Y.; Glen R. Leymaster 4M, of Aurora, Neb.; Clarke T. Case 4M, of Pyinmana, Burma; and Laurence G. Wesson Jr. 4M, of Boston, Mass...
...Acre after acre of sheaved flax awaits gathering. Winter wheat is beginning to sprout. Ruined rye crops are brown with rot. . . . Cavalry and artillery horses graze quietly. Crows and magpies peck at the blood-soaked earth...
...southwest, a rutted road winds through a field of rye, decayed in the autumn rain. There, like monster footprints, are the holes dug by the Russian shells that followed the retreating Germans, blasting hurriedly laid coils of barbed wire, ferreting out artillery positions, mangling innumerable machines...