Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week came a handsome, witty Scot who is making St. Columba's 1,400-year-old prophecy look better & better. Under his guidance the grey stones of the abbey, fallen into ruin after the Reformation, are rising again, and Iona's fertile soil has once more become dedicated ground. Sandy-mustached Rev. George Fielden MacLeod, 51, is no medievalist nor sentimental ruin-regarder. His purpose is hardly less ambitious than St. Columba's: to eventually awaken Scotland and England to a new concept and practice of religion. To many a Scottish Presbyterian, he seems a worthy...
...long as U.S. servicemen-even radio beacon operators and weathermen-remain at Greenland outposts, the U.S. is exposed to verbal sniping from Moscow for "keeping troops on foreign soil." But with the Soviets trying to muscle in on Norway's Spitsbergen (TIME, Jan. 20), Washington military men thought this might be as good a time as any to buy Greenland, if they could...
...victorious power against other victorious powers." In a pointedly anti-Russian passage, he promptly played one victorious power against another: "We recognize Russia as a piece of Europe. . . . But the thing against which we ... always will defend ourselves is the attempt to transplant cultural and political conceptions to German soil...
...World- or Two? "[The] great sources of wealth on German soil should be exploited for the benefit of all the European community, including Germany, instead of being exploited by Germany against the European community, as was the case until now. . . . Is it fair and reasonable that you should be obliged to send us coal . . . when the Ruhr is at our gates? ... In order that a it is European necessary that . . community . be the Ruhr [be] constituted, <| placed under international authority...
...farm equipment. He invited country banks all over the state to join him, offered to underwrite loans up to 50%. The new farm contractors also got the free advice of an agricultural expert Strickland had hired to show them how to do their job and improve the soil while doing...