Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most important tasks is to seek to improve the plants we find growing naturally in this region. There are thousands of varieties of sugar cane, for example: we see what conditions of soil and culture are most favorable to each. One which we have been developing, "Harvard 12029," is so successful that it is being planted in wide areas and bids fair to supplant the present species...
...excursions to make before getting back to the familiar Massachusetts dews and damps. They should be all finished in good order by Monday, however, and the Vagabond can then promise that it won't happen again, for another year anyway. And while his physical feet will probably touch no soil more remote than Cape Cod for many months to come, he will be fit to match tales with the most hardened globe-trotter and at the expense of far less energy...
...poem is written in some three hundred lines of blank verse and treats of a woman whose soul is one with the soil by which she lives and whose life is a symbol of the universal, earth-impelled life forces. Systole and diastole, spring and autumn are in her the same...
...apparent that Mr. Agee has read his Robinson appreciatively, for while he has borrowed the bitter and concisely astringent qualities of Robinson's verse forms, he has no taste for epigram or obscuring his verse with inversions and periphrasis. His poem of the variant life-urge which derives from soil and season and harvest is of the earth earthy, profound and moving...
There is a Mack Sennett comedy of the soil, whose continuity appears to have been written by Rabelais, with gags by the author of the travelling salesman joke. It is thoroughly bedridden. It's a talkie...