Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father of the Federal Farm Board's Samuel Roy McKelvie, won prizes on his Poland China hogs. Flyers from four States competed in an air derby. Governor Weaver, presented with a Diamond Jubilee plaque, said: "Nebraska has no mines of gold or silver or precious stones, but ... a soil that will last forever . . . salubrious climate . . . wonderful water...
...Sierra Madre, breathing acrid vapors against the blue Guatemalan sky. Never since the eruption of 1902 has it done much more than that. Planters grew used to the rumblings of Holy Mary, dug through the sterile crust of lava on her flanks to plant coffee bushes in the rich soil beneath. In recent years aviators have used the white plume from her crater as a beacon. Ten days ago Pilot D. G. Richardson, operations manager of the Mexican division of Pan American Airways, flying north on his regular trip from Guatemala to Mexico, swung close to Santa Maria, looked idly...
Holy Cross feared at first that their livestock would not be allowed on the hallowed soil of the Stadium, but when it was learned that the Army mule had paid a visit there, their fears were set at rest...
...latest back to the soil movements seems to have become stalled in its own dirt. Few who read the lead story in this issue of the CRIMSON will emerge from the maze of charge and counter-charge with more than an inkling as to what it's all about. In the first place only the most elect of the agricultural cognoscenti know where the Botanic Garden is and few but concentrators in horticulture can tell within a time limit of five minutes the difference between the Botanic Garden and the Gray Herbarium. But an understanding of these points...
Former upheavals that have served to disturb the equanimity of Harvard's fertile backyard soil have at least been compensated for in part by such epic discoveries as that of the Harvard plates, dear to the heart of old graduates and more recent wives. But unless some former treasures of the Med. Fac. or the buried miscellanies and Imperial testimonies of similar secret societies be the result of the present activity, we can look for ward to little but the plebian and depressingly progressive activity of white gloved gesticulating yard oops and the existence of red and green lights...