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From his 115-acre, upstate New York farm, Breed Improver and erstwhile Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace, 72, came to the defense of the harried incumbent, Orville Freeman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Being a strong, healthy lad, he had no difficulty in finding work in the blacksmith's shop at the Pencarrow Mines, where he was called an Improver.

From The Day of Judgment by Hocking, Joseph

In Blyth's Improver Improved we have one of the first accounts of covered drains.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)

Maurice Kane, the company’s Chief Improver, and a fine type of the Irish-American, was born on a small farm near Limerick.

From The Romance of the Reaper by Casson, Herbert Newton

That night there was blank dismay in every Avonlea house where an Improver lived.

From Anne of Avonlea by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)