Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew until he moved to Washington in 1933. At 17, Claude got fancy notions about going to Purdue University's School of Agriculture at Lafayette, 25 miles away. He graduated in 1915, with old-fangled resolve and new-fangled ideas, went back to Section 29. He tested the soil, found it sour, made a homely epigram: "We're mining the soil-not farming it." He began experimenting. Heedless of neighbors' alarms that he would kill the soil forever, he strewed phosphorus on the fields. He did nothing but farm, talked only about farming. His horizon stretched...
Hired Man. Claude Wickard was growing beyond his own soil. Wickard began working in extension projects, traveling the State, talking to farmers. In Indiana, farm politics and State politics are often the same thing. In 1932 Wickard became Democratic precinct captain. A slim, dark young fellow, Wayne Coy, then publisher of the Delphi Citizen (now rapidly becoming President Roosevelt's No. 1 trouble-shooter), got Wickard's friends to persuade him to run for the State Senate. Wickard...
From 100 to 300 years ago, Indians twisted the saplings by lashing their tops down with rawhide or vines, weighting them with rocks or soil, or pegging them down with stakes. From about 200 feet to a half-mile apart, their trunks paralleled a trail's direction. Rows of such trees still survive here & there. Today a silent brave, threading his way past filling stations, could still follow a good existing tree-trail from the shore of Lake Michigan north of Chicago, inland through the center of Highland Park (pop. 14,476) to the site of an old Indian...
...were a British delegation and a group of Harvardmen who had studied or taught at Oxford, among them Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter. Lord Halifax, as Chancellor of Oxford University, took President Conant's chair and to the surprise of his audience opened an unprecedented Oxford convocation on foreign soil. The oldest U.S. university turned over its campus to the oldest British university. Purpose: to give President Roosevelt an Oxford degree, a doctorate of civil law, its highest honor...
Their determination is to drive the Japanese off the soil that they and their fathers have tilled for milenniums. But as the war spreads to other corners of the earth, their struggle has become part of a bigger struggle. The defensive strategy of China dovetails with the defensive strategy of Britain and the U.S. Without realizing it, the embattled farmers of China have become allies of the fighting shopkeepers of the British Empire. If Suez should fall, the Chinese farmers would probably find their enemies turning to attack the Indies. If the Yangtze Gorges should fall, the defenders...