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...Free State have been engaged in a bitter tariff war, each deliberately rigging its schedules to hurt the other as much as possible. Another old sore is Free State resentment at the United Kingdom's continuing to maintain British harbor defenses, "on Erin's sacred sod...
...accumulated deposits of a village site, ranging in depth from a yard or so to 16 ft., contain ashes, shells, sea urchin spines, rotted wood and sod, bones of fish, birds and mammals (including whales), blown dust or silt, organic refuse of all sorts. Naturally the scientist cannot see this stuff without digging, because it is covered with vegetation. It is the vegetation itself which gives the clue. Rooted in such beds of unintentional fertilizer, the growth is darker, richer and taller than the average, and may show a luxuriant cover of plants which are rare elsewhere. On Kodiak Island...
...That unsparing biography of the author's father showed how he had been hardened by years of struggle against neighbors as mean as himself, quick-shooting cattlemen, sandstorms, dishonest politicians. It made hash of sentimental pioneer legends. But it presented a far kindlier version of life on the sod-house frontier than does Slo-gum House, which shows Gulla's successful villainy still ripening in her rotten old age. Overburdened with violence to a point that occasionally touches burlesque, Slogum House is nevertheless written with power, gives a clearer picture of the wild environment than of the people...
...buried in a niche of the Kremlin," as stated in the Oct. 26 issue under France in Foreign Affairs; his remains lie under the sod in a grassy terrace on one side of Lenin's tomb...
With such natural difficulties to surmount as party-line subscribers cut in and out, General Johnson persevered in his dictation, soon developed the point that a storm of this magnitude would have attracted attention around his old prairie home, reached the sentence, "In that sod house the winter's wood was in the shed." Ten minutes later he was still trying to make New York understand "sod house" and "winter's wood." An hour after he began, when both author and syndicate amanuensis were complaining of sore ears, the lines gave out for good on the pregnant phrase...