Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the representative of Japan's Imperial Headquarters placed his chop on the parchment, hostilities would be over. After that, it would be up to MacArthur and the armies of occupation to win the peace-on the soil that the Japanese still consider sacred...
...official rate of 50 francs to the dollar, v. the black-bourse rate of 130 to 250 francs - goes nowhere fast. Henceforth, the Government an nounced, it would pay each & every man of them 850 francs ($17 at the official rate) for every month they were stationed on French soil...
Arpents & Offspring. When Jean Trudel arrived at Quebec in 1645 he was just 16, a weaver by trade, and poor as Job. In his first ten years in New France, he worked for an apothecary, tilled the soil, fought Indians. When he had learned all the tricks necessary for survival in a frontier land, he was given the traditional 30 arpents of land (one arpent: approximately one and a half acres), and was on his own. He cleared away the forest, built a house, then married a Netherlander named Marguerite Thomas...
...with surprise that throughout the war Russian scientists, unlike those in the U.S. and Britain, had devoted their main effort to long-range, fundamental research. Langmuir & Co. further discovered that the Russians, through sheer volume of effort, already led the world in some fields of study (e.g., geology and soil science). In Moscow, they found famed Physicist Peter Kapitza presiding over one of the world's best-equipped electronics laboratories-where a photoelectric cell ten times as good as any in the U.S. has been developed...
News of an amazingly tough new cotton came from New Orleans last week. Some cloth and thread were buried in a soil bed alive with fungi and other microorganisms. Ordinary cotton would have decayed within a week. This material, after six months to a year in the ground, was almost as good...