Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young men of the Harvard Dramatic Club, who have been tilling new dramatic soil for long, lean years and harvesting nothing but headaches, have apparently dug their spades, at last, into fertile ground teeming with promise of rich returns...
...last spring, the disgruntled directors motored to Pacific Portland Cement Co.'s nearby plant to arrange for reconditioning the track surface with new soil and oystershells. Instead of this stock remedy, the company's chief agronomist, white-thatched, red-faced James Wilkes Jones, advised treating the soil itself. Upon examination he found that it consisted of nonporous and nonabsorbent substances. To rectify this, to get a soil that was ''friable, moist and mellow," he had ten tons of secret minerals churned into the soil by a special harrow and hopper-spreader. By September, after two months...
...agrarian group led by Poets Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, who condemn modern industrialized society, advocate a social order based on small farms, celebrate the forlorn gallantry of the pre-Civil War South. Although they preach the urgent necessity of living close to the soil, these writers advance their views in forbiddingly highbrow essays, in metaphysical verse that seems closer in spirit to the work of T. S. Eliot than to the hillbilly ballads of their native region. Readers who assume that these intellectuals speak for all Tennessee are in danger of missing some of the most...
...really grateful," said George II, "to be able again to set foot on the soil...
...Crops grown on mucky soil, dirt rich in decayed vegetation, found in bottoms of old swamps and reclaimed or old marsh land...