Word: soiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then botanists have hunted through Asia and bred in the U.S. varieties which will prosper in each type of soil and climate in the eastern U.S. and which have increased the yield per acre from 11.5 bushels (1924-27) to 18.7 bushels (1937-40). Among the 2,500 varieties are Huang-tou, Manchu, Ito San and Hahto; Lexington, Tarheel Black, Illini, Wilson and Roosevelt-a vivid index to the Asiatic heritage and U.S. adoption of the plant...
...China's aims, the first is complete withdrawal of Japanese soldiers from Chinese soil. Japan is now willing to make "concessions," would jump at the chance to end the China war by retaining only part of China. If Japan will get completely out, then there is no difficulty in the Pacific which cannot be quickly settled. If Japan will not get completely out of China, then there can be no "thoroughgoing settlement" unless the U.S. attempts a sellout of China...
...middle, for he never needed to. During most of the 20 years, London and Moscow felt towards each other much as Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge feels towards Negro Ph.D.s and vice versa. But now, somehow, crazily, incredibly, these two irreconcilables stood shoulder-to-shoulder on the soil of his beloved Iran, using it for a meeting ground of mutual assistance. Within his lifetime the Shah has seen some strange quirks in Russo-British-Iranian relations, but never one like this...
...latter on the coast 880 miles east of Chungking. China's minuscule but growing Air Force bombed Hanshan and Tsingteh, nearly 700 miles from Chungking, and returned without a casualty. By 1943 China expected to be strong enough in the air to bomb the Japanese on their own soil...
...made in the name of the "International Convention for Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism"-a legal aftermath of the 1934 assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseille. In this way it is said that scores of anti-Nazi German refugees and other Hitler-haters have passed from French soil into oblivion...