Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strangely out of date here in Cambridge. But when we travel homeward during the holidays, who does not feel a twinge of pride in naming her school . . . in defending it against a collegian brother? 'A prophet is not without honor in his own country', and school spirit finds fertile soil in all undertakings such as this publication would surely be. Here, then, is an unlimited Alaska: and unplowed West; an ungrazed Australia. The tools are at hand; the fields stretch before us; where are the ploueers?" Well, where are they...
...Isaacs, one-time Jewish peddler and contortionist on the streets of London, founder of the fabulous diamond fortune of the Joel and Barnato families which now totals at least $100,000,000. Young Barney drifted out to South Africa in the '70s when individual diggers spaded the surface soil and "panned" it for diamonds, each man with his own teetering sieve. Since "diamond earth" occurs in huge cones pointing downward, the diggers soon found their open pits were becoming death traps as "mud rushes" (slides) caved in upon them from the perimeter. Subsoil mining followed as a matter...
...England on the hills of Old Bennington, a woman's college is shortly to be established. At Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania an English honors school is in full operation. Down in North Carolina on the rolling Piedmont soil of Durham Duke University is rising. Here in the Middle West, Antioch College has been reborn upon a plan startingly original and appealing in many ways. The University of Wisconsin gives the opportunity to test out the faith of Professor Meiklejohn in the possibility of cultural education upon a new plan. A further experiment not yet begun is the plan...
...mountain district in northwest Georgia. From this grew Berry school, unique, appealing. In the mountains of the South were 4,000,000 impoverished, illiterate descendants of sturdy English-Scotch stock. Their ancestors, not wealthy enough to own slaves, did well as farmers while the original fertility of soil remained. Ignorant of modern refertilization, they grew so poor as to be ignorant of everything else. Miss Berry now mothers 700 of them a year, 500 boys, 200 girls, who build their own buildings, study soil, crops, many another practical subject. Mr. Ford, reported as "intending to assist Berry with a foundation...
...political but economic. It ever the Filipinos are to be able to stand by themselves, they must develop their enormous potential wealth. Only about 12 per cent, of the area of the islands is under cultivation. Agricultural methods are very primitive. Little has been done to improve them. The soil and climate of the Islands, however, is as good as the best in the fabulously rich Indies. All manner of tropical products can be grown there--rubber, camphor, coffee, tea, cocoa, gutta-percha, cocoanuts. Of these we import each year enormous quantities, but only a very small percentage comes from...