Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terrible with strength renewed from a tireless soil...
...hadn't meant to read that poem when he picks up his Kipling. And now he thought of young John Kipling of the Irish Guards, lying under a white wooden cross in his same "tireless soil." How did it go? "There is some spot on foreign ..." Vag checked himself. He wouldn't think about that. The hand of death had lain heavily on France, but there were parts it had not touched, parts where there were laughter and bright lights and crowded busses, parts where people danced all through the night and the sky was pink from the neon below...
PRAGUE--The Czechoslovak government, claiming a diplomatic victory over Hungary with Chancellor Adolf Hitler's support, today reported fighting between Czech and Hungarian soldiers in Slovakia province following an invasion of Czech soil. The new clash between Czech and Hungarian soldiers followed announcement that the two nations will resume negotiations immediately for settlement of Hungary's territorial demands...
...supposed to induce farmers to limit crops in return for benefits-soil conservation payments, crop loans, crop insurance, Government purchase of surpluses. If these inducements do not work the Act provides for compulsory controls-marketing quotas (such as are now in force for cotton and tobacco) invoked after two-thirds of the growers approve in a referendum. If crop prices continue falling however, Mr. Wallace declared himself opposed to outright price fixing on the basis of production cost, which "would soak the consumer, sink the farmer, and mean uncontrolled production...
...German troops, ordered to swing across the frontier at three different points between Helfenberg and Finsterau at 2 p. m. precisely, had set their legs in motion on German soil at 1:58 p. m. by the wrist watch of their commander, Colonel General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb. They entered first that part of the Bohemian Forest in which Schiller laid his play The Robbers. Since in these rustic parts there were no accommodations deemed suitable for high officers, these, on the first night, left their German troops sleeping in tents or peasant huts, themselves returned to sleep in hotels...