Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Broom corn grows in sandy Kansas, Illinois and Oklahoma soil. It is still a valuable crop, despite vacuum cleaners' wide use. The U. S. crop this year is worth about $4,000,000. Last week growers set up a cry; they need harvest hands at once, else the crop may be spoiled...
...visiting President Cosgrave, who was returning to Ireland after having signed at Paris a parchment called The Multilateral Treaty for Renouncing War as an Instrument of National Policy, Representatives of 15 nations had signed in Paris (TIME, Sept. 3). Moreover, when President Cosgrave and Secretary Kellogg stepped upon Irish soil, they knew that several additional nations had already declared their desire and intention to sign...
Royalists recalled that a Pretender to the Throne of France and all his sons are automatically and forever banished from the soil of the Republic. None the less the French Republican Government is not an enemy country. King Jean III during the War carried messages and was later allowed to do Red Cross work among "his people." With all to gain and nothing to lose, except his life, he was often in the front line trenches but escaped unscathed...
Minerals for Diabetics. Analyzing insulin, whose active principle has not yet been isolated,* chemists find minute traces of cobalt and nickel, so some diabetics are now being experimentally fed with cobalt and nickel salts. Scientists coupled this observation with the known fact that soil qualities modify the characteristics of peoples through the plant life eaten directly or indirectly (through herbivorous animals). Example: In Switzerland where iodine is rare, goitre is common. Feeblemindedness and dwarfism are therefore frequent. The recommendation of Dean Jacob G. Lipman of the Rutgers College of Agriculture was that agriculturists go still further in seeking what proper...
...wife of a man who made 80 millionaires and who now manages the Brown Derby. She is also a farmer. Several years ago in her native Queen Anne's County, Maryland, she decided to turn two worn-out farms into a paying proposition. Patiently she coaxed the barren soil with flax seed. This season her determination was rewarded by 101 acres of flax, characterized by famed Flax Expert George Lowry, as "the finest flax I ever saw." Neighboring farmers were, in turn, skeptical, respectful, imitative; flax raising has been raised from an experiment to a county industry. Were more...