Word: soils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks the chosen wheat of California saw the light of twelve argon-filled lamps, 300-candlepower each. Touched by no sun's ray, rooted in no soil, the wheat grew and flourished, drawing sustenance from jars of water in which the necessary chemical elements were dissolved. Although sun was excluded from the green house, the sun rays which contribute to plant growth were present in the electric light rays...
...nick of slaughter Martin and Claire are rescued from the black and bloody tunnel by a search party which turns out to have been sent by Martin's antediluvial wife, Helen, whom he had thought drowned. Before her presence can soil the lovers' passion, however, Helen is kidnaped by a fresh band of lustful and flood-maddened males...
Steam shovels began pecking at Chicago soil last week on the spot where the La Framboise family traded with Indians nearly a century ago. The conservative Chicago Daily News, household necessity for 440,000 people, had ordered for itself a new house of steel and Indiana limestone. It will rise 25 stories along the west bank of the Chicago River-a neighbor of the new Union Station. It will have a public plaza on which fountains will play and perhaps a few trees will grow. Under the plaza and one corner of the building will run the tracks...
Thus almost lost to fame is the most exciting and excitable figure that ever trod the soil of North America. Frémont was, characteristically enough, born unconventionally in 1813. His mother was the wife of gouty Major John Pryor, but his father was a dashing French emigré (Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver...
After that was 1856-"Free Speech, Free Press, Free Soil, Free Men, Frémont and Victory." But, able slogan though it was, victory did not follow. The campaign was a bitter one. Frémont was the presidential nominee of the new and crusading Republican (Free Soil) party, supported by the leading newspapers and liberals of the North. Conservative northerners feared to have so impetuous a man in the White House when southern Democrats were shouting: "Tell me, if the hoisting of the Black Republican flag . . . by a Frenchman's bastard, while the arms of civil...