Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courses in French and German mirrors in good part another submission to curricular machinery. Advised by elders and frightened by reports of the difficulty of the examinations entrance are coming more and more to take courses which guarantee the passing of the requirements instead of attempting the discipline of soil preparation: When the student knows nothing of a language elementary training is desirable. But a course that has no end but the sight transition of some two hundred words virtually wastes a quarter of curricular year...
IRELAND Royalty Last week, Princess Mary and her tall husband, Viscount Lascelles, landed in Ire- land. Not since 1921 when King George attended the opening of the Ulster Parliament in Belfast had British royalty stepped upon Irish soil. Therefore it was of great interest to see how Princess & husband would be greeted. When first they landed at Kingstown harbor, loyal welcoming Irishmen cheered, waved flags. But others, unruly, loudly hissed, catcalled. Princess Mary & husband then motored to their castle at Portumna, on the river Shannon. Through the courtesy of the Free State Government a bullet proof automobile was lent...
Jacob Goodale Lipman studied at the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School in New Jersey. That was 34 years ago. At Rutgers College he got his bachelor of science degree. Later he was to get doctorates, in science and philosophy. He became a soil chemist and bacteriologist. He has taught at Rutgers since 1902. He is now both director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experimental Station and also Rutgers' dean of agriculture...
Iodine in large doses is deadly, in small doses, beneficial. Milk contains a small percentage of iodine. When that percentage is lacking, human health sometimes suffers as a consequence. There are regions of the country in which the absence of iodine in salt, soil, water and milk explains the prevalence there of goitre. The country about Lake Michigan is one of these areas...
Knut Hamsun, as everyone knows, won the Nobel Prize for 1920 with his novel The Growth of the Soil. Peder Johannesen, farmer of Krakmo, Norway, never won any prizes. He was simply an ingenious and diligent hayseed who installed turbines and other complex apparatus by himself, who inspired a great novelist with the dignity of certain agricultural artisans. Novelist Hamsun derived Isak, the hero of his prize novel, from Peder. Peder died last week...