How To Use Cornhusking In A Sentence
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The conception of cornhusking as a sport rather than a chore sprang from the fertile brain of Henry Agard Wallace.
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-- after cornhusking was all husked and the oats thrashing all thrashed and the rutabaga digging all dug, I took eight dollars and a half in my inside vest pocket and I went to the hardware store.
Rootabaga Stories
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Its large rooms were fashioned not just to accommodate weddings, funerals, prayer meetings, cornhuskings, and the like, but to provide shelter during storms and Indian attacks.
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Broadcasts of games are picked up in almost every store and gas station from Omaha to the western border; farmers sometimes neglect their cornhusking in the afternoon to hear the game over the radio.
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Martin was one of the participants at the hand cornhusking demonstration Thursday at Husker Harvest Days.
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Previous to this affair my father, from all I can learn, had been a good-humored and light-hearted man, the ringleader in all fun at cornhuskings and Christmas buffoonery.
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During the 1780s, community cornhuskings, barn raisings, logrollings, and quilting bees symbolized the overall cooperation among rural New Englanders.
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Winter is coming, and Charlotte's days are filled with cornhusking and candle dipping and helping Mama mind baby Mary.
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Despite rain and muddy field conditions, the hand cornhusking demonstration went on as planned.
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I have been thinking of home very much today; wondering if you were all well and whether you have finished cornhusking.
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When asked why, at 82, he still likes to compete in hand cornhusking, he said, "It's fun.
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Then, back in 1992, there was a hand cornhusking contest in West Point.
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At 75 years old, Janzen said last year was the first time he ever entered a hand cornhusking contest.
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It is nearly impossible to specify a rigid format for string bands prior to the onset of the recording industry, perhaps because ‘bands’ were usually informal groups thrown together to play for dances, cornhuskings, auctions, etc.
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They must hurry to complete their chores early, as by late afternoon they will journey three miles by foot to attend a cornhusking and dance in their neighbors’ new barn.
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He had his cornhusking to do, and he wanted to get all the fall jobs finished before cold weather.
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He had his cornhusking to do, and he wanted to get all the fall jobs finished before cold weather.
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Of course, cabin-building, cornhusking, and quilting parties provided ample opportunities for the dissemination of strictly "local" news.
The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography
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From the looks of it, this state cornhusking champion hasn't lost a step when it comes to picking corn by hand.
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