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Word: soiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good, a simple and noble man is Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin. Open house is still his rule to all whom he feels are his brother tillers of the soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Argentina is the melting pot of South America. Article XXV of the Argentine Constitution provides: "The Federal Government shall encourage European immigration and shall not restrict, limit, or place any tax upon the entry into Argentine territory of foreigners who come with the object of cultivating the soil and engaging in local industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: On the Map | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...heart was Michael Son-of-Ivan Kalinin, the President of Russia - for he is himself a peasant (see cover). A good, a simple and a noble man is Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin. Open house is still his rule to all whom he feels are his brother tillers of the soil. A poor peasant or a rich "Fist" despised by Communists can trudge or journey to Moscow and be sure that, having waited his turn, he may speak his grievance to the Comrade President and warm his stomach with scalding tea from the never-out presidential samovar. Each peasant knows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Days of Wrath | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...statue of Andrew Jackson in the capitol grounds at Nashville, Tenn., was similarly treated. The Mississippi Legislature took under advisement a resolution to have the bodies of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson removed from "Republican soil" (Virginia) to "Democratic soil" (Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Politicules | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Silver spade cut lightly into Pittsburgh soil, scooped up a scant quart of mineral-laden earth. Ground had been broken for the $10,000,000 power plant of the Duquesne Light Co. on Brunot's Island in the Ohio River.* Celebrities and guests boarded the steamship Manitou, chatted away the half-hour trip from the Island back to the city proper. In the earth, the cut remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Silver Scoop | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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