Word: soiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time was when the greatest praise which could be bestowed upon an institution of higher learning was to compare it favorably with the New England college and to predict a maintenance, in its students and graduates, of the New England hierarchy. Harvard, however, although sprung directly from New England soil and built up in her youth by New England zeal and vision, may be said to have widened her horizons until now, in the two hundred and ninety-first year of her existence she is recognized to be so representative of the United States in her enrollment...
Counterclockwise to the sun. a U. S. monoplane was winging its way over strange soil and seas. Brown natives on lonely wastes and swarthy fishermen on desolate coasts looked upward from their fires and nets to see the huge hummingbird dart eastward overhead. Edward F. Schlee, Detroit oil man, and William S. Brock, onetime air mail pilot, drove the Pride of Detroit toward the glory of circling the world in record time. The previous record made by airplane, train and boat: 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...
Bolivian and Paraguayan troops glared at each other last week over a little-known, nondescript strip of borderland. They glared the more ferociously because the soil was popularly supposed to contain valu- able oil deposits. The land itself is of no agricultural value, being subject to floods at certain seasons of the year; but, for oil and other reasons, it was in dispute between the two countries. Which side of the frontier should...
...been to Leroy, N. Y. to learn more about this plow and he told me more than TIME had. For your information there are tivo blades to it. The tractor that drags it is equipped with a generator from which the current passes from share to share under the soil, which must be damp to insure good transmision. The current thus electrocutes all insect life in its path and also it fixes nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil thus fertilizing the field...
Welcome. A year ago, General Pershing, Marshall Foch and many another highest endorser of American Legion's proposed reunion in Paris on the tenth anniversary of the A. E. F.'s appearance on French soil, seriously doubted the wisdom of turning 15,000 Americans loose in a country where Americans had become distinctly unpopular. Was that unpopularity wholly erased -by the stabilization of the French franc, the debt negotiations, the visit of Heroes Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd...