Word: soiling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some mysterious internal combustion. He is gaunt, and his eyes have the baleful stare of windows in a bombed-out house. He is a competent general-in Russia he has been Germany's best-and besides, he believes, with aggressive religiousness, in dying if necessary for the soil and honor of Prussia...
...read by any U.S. scholar was delivered last week to a group of teachers by an eminent member of the University of Chicago faculty. Professor Bernadotte Schmitt told them that history showed that western civilization would not be safe until the German people were crushed on their own soil...
...really intolerable that the world should be plunged into war every 25 years by Germany. . . . The first essential is the complete and overwhelming military defeat of Germany, to be accomplished if possible on German soil. . . . The German people have not experienced war on their territory since 1866, except for a short Russian invasion of East Prussia in 1914. They need to be made aware of the horrors...
...took over another Air France field, flanked by an extremely powerful Lati radio station. Lati planes still use this field too, almost grazing the heads of A.D.P. workmen. To enlarge the runway from 800 to 1,550 meters, A.D.P. is moving by hand labor 120,000 cubic meters of soil, cutting and filling spots often 20 feet off-grade. But Superintendent Fred Wohn had trouble getting enough of the necessary small, hand-pushed dump trucks. A German contractor had some; when Wohn tried to rent them for the A.D.P. project, he flatly refused. Wohn finally got his trucks by sending...
...soil at Recife is nearly pure sand, must be watered down to keep it from blowing away. From a nearby quarry clay is hauled, spread over the sand base in a six-inch layer. Over this go two three-inch layers of soil stabilization mixture. The result is equivalent to good cement, but is cheap, quick and resistant to the equatorial...