Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whereas the first white man to set foot on American soil was a native son of Iceland, Lief Ericson, an able and fearless sailor who, ... in the year 1000 discovered the American mainland which feat constitutes the beginning of authentic American history...
...private institutions of the East and the allegedly "crude"' State-supported institutions of the Midwest and West. Its students come from both sides of the Alleghenies. It is composed of colleges supported privately and by the State. It is a co-educational "man's college." It began with the soil and evolved an international tradition...
...this afternoon on Soldiers Field. This is the second tilt of the annual two-game series, the first of which the Crusader sluggers annexed last Saturday, 10 to 3. The Harvard aggregation should do better this afternoon, back in its own bailiwick, than it did last week on Worcester soil, but the struggle is sure to be keenly contested even if the Harvard pitching staff is able to seem the Holy Cross slugging, and about this there is some doubt...
...Muirfield and Moortown where he had his first taste of European golf, Golfer Smith generally had to forego his orthodox stance. In St. Cloud, however, the land's conformity did not interfere with his form. Furthermore, there was no wind, and the shimmering heat had baked the clay soil so that the balls seemed to be rolling on billiard tables. The best Smith scores were two consecutive...
...high arsenic content of the soil that these skeletons have been so well preserved," said a Sorbonne professor inspecting a cadaver whose clutching fingers showed the agony of his death. "This portion of the prison dates from the 12th Century, perhaps earlier." Skeletons sat upright against the dungeon wall. Some lay with heavy wooden collars about their necks, some were chained to blocks of stone...