Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courtesy of the Governments of the land in which they are situate, foreign embassies are regarded as foreign soil under privileges derived from extraterritoriality, a term of international...
...British Ministry of Agriculture invited Oxford University to help farmers cultivate the soil, The response was immediate. Oxford will set up a Research Institute in Agricultural Engineering...
...someday to Palestine. For this purpose he studied Hebrew clandestinely. Twenty years ago he was offered the Rabbinate of Jaffa, and, giving up a well-paying position as rabbi of Busk, Russia, he went. Today the Jewish world regards him as its philosopher-saint. His landing on American soil was greeted by 300 rabbis and thousands of aged patriarchs, standing in the windy cold. Why did he come...
Merit Rewarded. That Fiume is now Italian soil is due to Gabriele d'Annunzio, poet, airman, filibuster, whose expedition in 1919 seized the little city at the head of the Adriatic and held it against all comers until driven out by Italian bayonets...
...style that make the reading of Sir Arthur Shipley's new elementary biology a stimulating exercise. He calls his little book "Life," prefaces his chapters with apt quotations from the poets, and explains with an unusual combination of scientific accuracy and literary flavor all about protoplasm, cells, feeding, the soil and the sap, food, digestion, respiration, movement, and reproduction, in plants and animals...