Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rope to the trestle of the Michigan Central Railroad. With little, cautious steps she walked along the cold steel girders, while the Whirlpool Rapids 250 feet below howled at her. She was shrewd enough to put her legs in trousers instead of flapping, treacherous skirts. She reached U. S. soil. Last week she was arrested with four other young women who had crossed from Canada in rowboats the night after her bridge-walk. All were held as witnesses against a band of five alien smugglers. Commented the New York World: "Perhaps, then, in wattle huts and thatched roofs, in crowded...
...manufacturer of microscopes found by a survey that the farmers of the country could be sold small inexpensive microscopes. They could use them in detecting what sort of bug was eating cabbage leaves and what in the soil was deterring the growth of corn, wheat or other crops. In fact, nearly a hundred ways were found for the practical use of the microscope on the farm. Accordingly, this manufacturer's biggest market for microscopes has been developed among the farmers of the country...
...Italy, honored the musician above most artists, and reverence and love of this art produced whole races of instrumentalists and singers. But in America the perfect type of sissy was conceived as a long-haired esthete carrying a violin. For some reason good music was not native to this soil, and long years of labor by a few who appreciated it have been needed to rouse the nation from its apathy. America still is far from being musically cultivated, but it is no longer an ignoramus among nations in this art, and whatever distance it has come on the road...
Hawaii is more than a paradise in tropic seas. The boom of surf on coral reef, the fiery image of volcanic spray on cloudless night sky, flower-garlanded brown bodies lure U. S. tourists. But those mountainous islands are one with the U. S. in creating wealth from soil and industry. In the capital city, Honolulu, is a Stock and Bond Exchange where the securities of the Philippine Archipeligo's sugar plantations, public utilities, railways and pineapple canners are bought and sold, and where, significantly, are listed the foreign stocks and bonds of Sumatran and Philippine companies financed...
...Christ in America, which, with official delegations from 28 denominations, was holding annual session in Cleveland, became an uproar. Said the Rev. Dr. George Summey of New Orleans: "Now let's be careful lest we touch matters of a political nature and commit ourselves to something that will soil the garments of the Bride of Christ. . . . There is a wide difference of opinion. Now, let's go carefully." Colored Baptist Dr. W. H. Jernagin pleaded in its favor on the grounds that it would give the Negro church confidence in white church cooperation on one of their major problems. After...