Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, Max Muller's new word sprouted in fertile soil and quickly got out of hand. A considerable body of German scholars not only gave Aryan the widest possible linguistic meaning, but applied it as a race-name to the primitives who spread over Europe from their unknown homeland. These learned men asserted that Indo-Europeans were fair-haired, blue-eyed, resembled in all ways the ideal German...
Next morning the cruiser, with the New Orleans tagging dutifully along, appeared at Hilo on the opposite side of the island for the ceremony of setting the first presidential foot on Hawaiian soil. Under leis the smiling President debarked, was met by a great brown & yellow crowd which knew little of the U. S. custom of cheering a great man. A drive through Hawaii National Park brought Visitor Roosevelt to the crater of Kilauea. There he tossed in a bunch of ohelo berries to appease Pele, goddess of volcanoes...
Cordell Hull: "The ascetic type, suggesting a monk of the Middle Ages." Donald Richberg: "A deep thinker." Henry Wallace: "A man of the soil." Hugh Johnson: "The answer to my prayer...
...Tennessee Valley Authority. Since then they have added 9,000 persons to the TVA payroll, begun the construction of two great dams which together will cost $72,000,000, ordered surveys for four others and completed no less than 59,680 rock, brush, bag and log dams to check soil erosion. They are spending $4,500,000 experimenting with fertilizers, millions buying power & light systems, millions financing the sale of electrical gadgets, $100,000 trying to make soft coal smokeless. They have built roads, transmission lines, a town and a tourist camp; planted 2,751,000 trees, 7,000 kudzu...
...much to forgive. But at last they were married, went to live on the ancestral farm Willoughby had inherited. For a few years they were happy; then Willoughby's blood began to tell. He grew more and more like his old uncle, sank deeper and deeper into the soil, while his wife stifled for a breath of the civilization she was used to. Eventually they agreed to separate; she went back to town and left Willoughby to his Spartan acres and his Spartan thoughts...