Corn
Corn is, in general, any staple food[?] grain of the family Poaceae.
Originally, the term referred to the kernel of any grain, for instance, barleycorn[?]. In various English speaking countries, the term may now be used for some particular grain, often the most common staple food grain in the country.
- In North America and Australia: maize, sometimes differentiated as field corn and sweetcorn, a hybridised variety of maize;
- In England: wheat, although the word still often retains its generic meaning there;
- In Scotland: oats.
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Maybe, though, what happened next day will serve for one.
I got halfway over to the field and found I had forgotten my ticket, and
came those awful sounds. I kicked it open and stuck my head in.
"Hello," I said. "Do you know what time it is? You'll be late."
McTurkle took the French horn from his face and wiped the mouthpiece gently
book-covered table. "I shall be quite busy this afternoon, quite busy. But
the shoulders--"
Well, we got licked that day. But, say, honest now, it wasn't McTurkle's
THE TRIUMPH OF "CURLY"
on the half-opened door. The afternoon sunlight made golden shafts across
the songs of birds, the incessant hum of insects, and occasionally a quick,
clover-perfumed breeze fanning their dripping brows, the boys of Willard's
of Durham Academy. But Curly neither heard the cheering nor had thought for
the preceding June at a Western university, and had entered his name in the
a position. During the fall and early winter he waited with what philosophy
a Ph. D.
Then, in February, an unforeseen vacancy at Willard's School had given him
was made in the case of Isaac Newton Stone, A. M.
He was twenty-three years old, but looked several years younger. He was
pink-and-white complexion. His hair was of an indeterminate shade between
Three days after his advent at Willard's he had become universally known as
the hazing process, if not with enjoyment, at least with apparent.
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