Word: soils
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...third mile bicycle track will be completed in about ten days. It will be a clay path, fifteen feet wide, built of the natural soil, which packs readily and dries quickly. The Track Association has secured the services of the well known professional "Joe" Harrison, who is expected to arrive some time this week and remain for a month to coach the bicycle squad...
...thought to be the case, the fault lies, not in the drains, but in the heavy soil above, so that the water can not sink through, a large bulk of the old earth must be removed and new substituted. As it would then be impossible to grow a good turf and get the gridiron ready in time for the first games, that part of the field will be left as it is until the rest is finished...
...which was recently appropriated by the Corporation for the improvement of Soldiers Field will be spent chiefly in filling in and altering the sub-soil. The wetness of the field which has caused so much trouble is due to the character of the ground, which in places consists of heavy clay and marsh land...
...Liberty and Free Soil parties in the Northwest...
...hearth of the philosophical and literary activity of the time was the University of Moscow. In some humorous quotations from a contemporary the lecturer showed the sort of philosophical intoxication in which the younger generation of the time lived. A prominent part in this movement which prepared the literary soil from which the great Russian novelists were to arise belongs to the critic Belinsky...