Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malthusians want to warn man of danger; but their alarm is so loud that it may have the effect of deafening the world to its opportunities. To the real agricultural scientists, close to the soil and its sciences, such pessimism sounds silly or worse. Every main article of the Neo-Malthusian creed, they say, is either false or distorted or unprovable. They are sure that the modern world has both the soil and the scientific knowledge to feed, and feed well, twice as many people as are living today. By the time population has increased that much...
Rossiter came to Harvard this year from his home in Barbados, West Indies, where his father is a retired major in the British Army, but his roots in the soil of Cambridge go all the way back to the 17th Century. One of his ancestors, a Mr. Kimball, was an original trustee of the College...
...that year Charles Sumner, 1830, and ex-President Adams joined with other Harvard graduates to form the Free Soil Party. College politics then became tangled for a few years; the Board of Overseers, for instance, was a strange mixture of Northern Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. But by 1860, the dominant Republican sentiment, which has lasted down to the present, was clear. A poll of the Class of 1860 turned up nine Democrats, 23 Constitutional Unionists, and 74 Republicans. The Unionists held the College's first torchlight parade shortly before election that year, carrying signs such as "Bell (the party...
After the early loss of lift-half Dave Roos with a broken log, Winthrop House would not be stopped. The Puritan offense looked like a rototiller raging through soft, Indiana soil, with the Winthrop backs bucking the center and sweeping the ends past blocked and seated Commuter defenders...
...crops and belongings; they carry diseases; they buzz and they bite). But to catalogue their virtues, Hyslop uses more than twice as much space. For man's benefit and pleasure, he points out, insects produce silk, shellac, beeswax and honey. They pollinize plants. They improve the soil by burrowing into it and dying. Singing crickets and fighting crickets are part of show business to the Chinese. Some insects, including locusts, ants, beetles and caterpillars, are food for some people (the Hyslop family tried the 17-year locust, fried, but found the dish tasteless...