Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maintain the Wagner Labor Relations Act and the Wage-Hour law; to expand the Social Security Act; to give a place in the Cabinet to the Northwest; to continue soil conservation, commodity loans, rural electrification, farm credit, crop insurance; call a national conference of farm, labor and industry to plan national prosperity; to revise and make more equitable the tax laws; to maintain for the people the gains made toward public power; to provide jobs for every man & woman in the U. S. willing to work; to continue giving relief to all who cannot find work...
...believe "The Baker's Wife," it was a land of savory white bread and sparkling wine, the home of wholesome earthiness and tender charm. Whatever the historical truth, "The Baker's Wife" should manage to please everybody: Dr. Goebbels, because of its solid portion of "blood and soil"; and all the others, because of its warm humanity and charming malice...
...night, for 96 tense hours, Lieut. Davies and his squad burrowed. No excitement of active combat, no military ends, no instinct to destroy the enemy urged them as they grubbed 27 feet into the wet, sandy soil. They were in constant expectation of a blinding, icy flash of death. As they dug, a gas main caught fire and began to broil the bomb. Twice on the way up the bomb slipped its tackles and fell to the bottom of the hole...
...years Fairgoers have gaped at the capsule, gleaming at the bottom of its open well. One day this week, from a huge, hot caldron, 500 Ib. of petroleum pitch, chlorinated diphenyl and mineral oil were poured into the well, to act as a packing indefinitely resistant to moisture and soil acids. On the stroke of noon, the well was sealed. A crowd of spectators bared their heads. A bugle sounded taps. The capsule started on its long journey through time...
parried all forms of attack successfully by day, seeming even to invite the Luftwaffe in over the land so that casualties would fall on British soil. Combats took place mostly at out-of -sight altitudes. According to British claims, the ratio of German craft shot down to British craft lost fell lower than two-to-one (25-10-15) during the week, then rose again toward week's end to 63-10-22 and 85-10-37 as the Ger mans became more numerous on bright days with scattered clouds...