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Mahout broke well and closely followed Alamond and School Tie for a quarter of a mile - to his favorite spot near the little stable road. There he stopped being conventional. Bolting towards the outside rail, he dug his four feet into the loam, and neither Arcaro's bat nor his backer's prayers could move him an inch...
China's Sorrow. Todd had spent 26 of his 65 years studying, scheming, writing about the Yellow River. He knew the river's history: it had brought rich loam soil down from the Mongolian mountains to form the fertile flat Shantung peninsula; silt deposited in the river bottom raised the surface level along half its 2,500 mile course, until its banks could not contain it. Not even Oliver Todd knew how many humans the Yellow River, China's Sorrow, had killed...
...County, the Rayburns are known as "black-dirt folk," the flattering description of the more opulent farmers and cattlemen who own the county's best rich, deep black soil. They stand apart from the folk on the "grey-dirt" farms, where only a thin layer of slate-covered loam hides the limestone...
...Moines, surrounded by Iowa's fabulous black loam, is in the heart of U.S. farm country. There last week Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, talking to the nation and twelve members of the Midwest Governors' Conference, got quickly to the heart of the U.S. farm problem...
...Lordship was making the rounds of his estate. He crushed the loam of his land between his strong fingers and he snuffed the sweet country air. When he passed Virginia Lucie he smiled. She smiled, too. For she was the daughter of an old Etonian whose name was in Who's Who; like thousands of other British girls of high and low birth, she chose to do her bit by working on the land...