Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when a Francis Bacon could take "all knowledge" for his "province" and not be speedily committed to a private hospital. What, for example, could even semi-encyclopaedic newsgatherers make of "the purification of colloids by electro-dialysis," the feat which Guggenheim money will aid Dr. Richard Bradfield, soil professor at the University of Missouri to accomplish? Dr. William Henry Eyster's project, at the University of Maine, to study "the physiology of chloroplastid pigments," was equally inscrutable. And why should Dr. Ralph Erskine Cleland of Goucher College be given money to pry into "the chromosome constitution and behavior...
...blood was spilt on Shanghai soil as Chinese murdered Sergeant James B. Montague of the U. S. Marine Corps; police found his body later in the Whangpoo river...
...managers and bookkeeping experts is on the back of the American farmer. . . . Born in the fertile fortune-seeking brain of a young Jew on the Pacific Coast a little more than five years ago . . . the idea has turned millions away from the pockets of the men who till the soil, and into the hands of the Jews and their followers...
...songs or snatches; but one, a young Columbia University Assistant Professor "on the make" has turned out a very crisp and searing exposé5 of the hypocritical process by which the white man shoulders a "burden" of profitable produce which he has made the colonial native extract from soil rightly his. The other U. S. ruminator cited is the Editor of Foreign Affairs.6 He starts with such elementals as that "Balkans" was originally a Turkish word meaning simply "mountains"; and then proceeds to untangle the Balkan post-War skein. His major prophecy is the gradual supplanting of France...
...errant stag and a hearty poacher; lusty village women, lying in a mustard field after fagot-gathering, wish that love could return; the noblesse oblige of a lonely schoolmaster and a proud lady; two aging, air-plant spinsters and how one of them nearly took root in village soil...