His attempt to boost farm wages, called the Agricultural Adjustment Act, supposedly "plowed under" every fourth acre.
A video shows counselors calling for violent conquering of Jaffa and acre (Akko).
Looking for a rec center with an acre of cardio and weight machines like the ones used at the Beijing Olympics?
In 1981, the average price of farmland in Iowa was $2,147 per acre; by 1986, the average farm brought $787 an acre.
Sometimes the great powers applauded; sometimes they condemned, but acre by acre, Jews seized control of their fate.
I think every acre of land suitable for garden or field cultivation is taken.
"I wish I had an acre for every good thrashing I got when I was a boy," he commented drily.
It is a quiet spot, but without gloom, as befits "God's acre."
Tableland there is none except little patches of less than an acre.
This was forty rods, or poles, and four of these furrows made up the acre.
Old English æcer "tilled field, open land," from Proto-Germanic *akraz "field, pasture" (cf. Old Norse akr, Old Saxon akkar, Old Frisian ekker, Middle Dutch acker, Dutch akker, Old High German achar, German acker, Gothic akrs), from PIE *agro- "field" (cf. Latin ager "field, land," Greek agros, Sanskrit ajras "plain, open country").
Originally in English without reference to dimension; in late Old English the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plow in a day, afterward defined by statute as a piece 40 poles by 4, or an equivalent shape (5 Edw. I, 31 Edw. III, 24 Hen. VIII). Original sense retained in God's acre "churchyard."