Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make bleak, sparsely populated Siberia so attractive to Russians that they will swarm there with enthusiasm and, once established, fight to defend their homes. The tragic error of Nicholas II was to suppose that he could beat Japan with soldiers from European Russia who could not understand why Asiatic soil 4,000 miles from their homes was worth fighting for. Wiser than Nicholas II, Stalin I plunged Russia last week into the most farsighted and stupendous effort of military-economic preparation for defense in history. To help put the Dictator's program across, newsorgans throughout all the Russias printed...
...pure gold on purple vellum leaves, bound in golden plates set with ancient rubies and emeralds. Even more valuable for theological students was a case of 9th & 10th Century Coptic manuscripts, one in its original covers, dug from the edge of an oasis by Arabs searching for tillable soil. There was much more to dazzle the imagination: the purple vellum Gospels supposed to have been given to Henry VIII by Pope Leo X; the 10th Century De Materia Medica of Dioscorides; the 13th Century British Psalter with the earliest known picture of a windmill...
Last week a Hollywood actor lost his job for being drunk and disorderly on foreign soil. To Mexico City to make a picture called Viva Villa, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had sent Lee Tracy, famed for his staccato characterizations of reporters, press agents and politicians. Noted for his eccentric conviviality, Actor Tracy used to frequent Manhattan speakeasies with pockets full of cheese crackers and popcorn. Last week when 30,000 Mexican cadets paraded past his hotel he appeared on the balcony outside his bedroom, wrapped in a blanket. Throwing that off, he shouted profanities at the crowd, waved his arms...
Teacher from Cornell. George Frederick Warren, 59, Professor of Farm Management and Agricultural Economics at the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, is an economist close to the soil. As a boy he herded sheep on his native farm in Clay County, Neb. After his degree from the University of Nebraska and postgraduate study at Cornell he settled down in Ithaca in 1906 as an assistant professor in the Agricultural College and as operator of his own 500-acre farm close by. There he raised six children, cash crops and a large herd of Holstein cows. Scornful...
...Stalin) to "refrain" in the most scrupulous manner from any interference in U. S. affairs; to "restrain" from such interference "all organizations of the Soviet Government or under its direct or indirect control, including organizations in receipt of any financial assistance from it"; to refuse to harbor on Russian soil any group "which makes claim to be the Government of or makes any attempt on the territorial integrity of the United States...