Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They live in and on wood. They build and bore for themselves airtight galleries which shut out light, diseases, most enemies. These galleries also keep their colonies humid and draftless, so that the soft-bodied insects do not dry up. This sheltered existence makes termites hard to fight. When soil-nesting termites travel to find wood, they construct long covered runways, which may reach even to the second floor of a house...
...been a great week for India. President Roosevelt included us in the list of United Nations, after Honduras. Is it constitutionally correct to describe India as a United Nation? What is a nation? The Axis says a nation is the product of blood and soil and a roaring Führer. The Democrats of Britain say a nation is made of a stable pound, good public schools and a lot of people making a lot of dollars between making a lot of whoopee. Is India a nation by any of these tests...
...Soil v. Blueprints. In Professor Odum's view, World War II is only an incident in the long sweep of history; he believes that in the long run U.S. destiny will be determined not by victory in war or by spacious blueprints but by the stubborn facts of soil, climate, folkways and the local application of intelligence. But educated Southerners consider Dr. Odum himself more than an incident: many believe his big work, Southern Regions of the United States, will affect the South as profoundly as Uncle Tom's Cabin did the North...
...facts at North Carolina 22 years ago, many Southerners took umbrage at any suggestion for improvement of the South's backward economy. Dr. Odum made no suggestions; he just went on laboriously piling up his facts. He turned up some whopping ones: e.g., with much of the richest soil in the U.S., the Southeast spent 7% of its gross income for commercial fertilizer, almost as much as it spent on education (it bought two-thirds of all the fertilizer used in the nation). Reason: its cash-crop, soil-consuming system (cotton and tobacco). But Dr. Odum impressed Southerners most...
...fact that disturbed the U.S.: this was no small-scale attempt to divert attention. The Japanese had disregarded such difficulties as long and arduous supply lines, torrential rains, miasmic fogs, 80-mile gales, scarce anchorages, flinty soil, volcanic mountains, a savage shoreline...