Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief wheat producing regions are the great plains of the U. S. & Canada, the Argentine pampas, Australia and the rich black earth of Southern Russia. But new wheat lands are being rapidly opened up in North African colonies of Italy and France...
...been six years buried, Enrico Caruso would not have enjoyed so large a burst of posthumous fame. The Caruso corpse, however, has not moldered in the earth, nor has any worm yet tunneled the golden passage of its throat. Like the late Nikolai Lenin (among all famed contemporaries the only other one) the body of the great singer has been subjected to a process of embalmment which will preserve the natural contour of his face and figure for, it is alleged, 100 years. At first, when he was put to rest in the Caruso chapel in the Naples Cemetery...
...lone recorded feat of Mr. Rockefeller's imagination. Otherwise, he has exhibited no great creative imagination. But give even a street car conductor a mighty creed, give him an almost perfect mathematical determination to carry it out, and he will build tracks to the ends of the earth...
Besides providing these addenda to earth's natural equipment, the I. T. & T. stockholders provided for their own profit and comfort by re-electing directors who have supported President Sosthenes Behn in his amazing expansion of the business. Many financially conscious persons noted for the first time that two of the company's directors are Spaniards, one count, one marques...
...Story. The authors of Genesis could not have had more fun than Norman Douglas. In his version of the beginning, when "the thing called Sin had not yet been invented," there were gods in the Celestial Halls, and on earth Satyrs, serenely beautiful. These Satyrs were the first and best to cultivate the earth and the arts of music, weaving, medicine, meteorology. In fact they grew so wise that the Great Father (head god) in a fit of jealousy cursed them to infecundity. But gods thrive on the fear and flattery of mortals. So Great Father thought up subservient...