Word: soils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...activities of the ex-Emperor and ex-Crown Prince have become so energetic that the Dutch authorities are alarmed. Twice within a few weeks the Imperial German flag has been raised on Dutch soil, once over a seaside villa in which the ex-Kaiser was visiting, and again at Wieringen, when a yacht called Hohenzollern flew it on the occasion of a mysterious visit to the ex-Crown Prince...
This organization was quietly accomplished through banks controlled by the coal baron, five more of which he has recently "penetrated." The first fight in Stinnes' oil war will be waged on the neutral soil of Denmark. He has spent several days in Copenhagen preparing for an attack on the Danish-American Petroleum Company...
Tests made on land with the new 4,300-pound demolition bomb, carried by a Handley Page aeroplane, illustrated the power of the new weapon. Released from midair, the bomb buried itself in compact, sandy soil. A moment later the explosion threw soil almost 1,000 feet into the air and left a crater 19 feet deep, 64 feet in diameter. One thousand cubic yards of earth had been displaced...
...after a series of mishaps that would furnish plot for a modern Comedy of Errors. He had been in America three weeks, but few, even in scientific circles, knew it until he was about to leave. Pavloff has no stomach for publicity. Scarcely had he set foot on our soil, in company with his son, Dr. Vladimir Pavloff, a professor of physics, who studied under Sir Joseph Thomson, when he was robbed at the Grand Central Terminal of $2,000-all his ready cash. The Pavloffs were adopted as guests by the Rockefeller Institute when scientific colleagues learned of their...
POLLY PREFERRED-Genevieve Tobin, a Cinderella of the movies, meets a go-getter godfather, who clothes her in splendor and wins her the right to tread the sacred soil of Hollywood in the slipper of fortune...