Word: soils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although no conclusive proof, as yet, has, backed up the professorial explanation of recent athletic unhappiness at New Haven as being due in large measure to the lack of vitamines in the over- worked soil of Connecticut; the part played by diet in athletic training is being weighed and estimated today as never before. Not only "what" to eat, but "how much" and "how often" are debated in athletic camps all over the country. A prominent football coach in Pennsylvania has come out with the statement that he has found his teams to have greater speed, and stamina when they...
...density; as for example, in the far western province of Szechwan, four million people--the equivalent of the population of Massachusetts--life on the Chengtu Plain, an area less than twice the size of Rhode Island; and they are self-supporting at that. If China's potential resources of soil and mine and water power were developed with full effectiveness, and were served by adequate transportation facilities, her present population could have a modern standard of living. Nevertheless, if China continues to breed four generations in a century, instead of three, she can scarcely hope to make her resources keep...
...years, has emerged with a strong central government through the triumphant tradition of the Roman Law and Gallic belief in the sacredness of property. But Mexico has none of these. The degenerate, confused Latin tradition of the Gonquistadores had not time to become rooted in the semi-barbarous Mexican soil before the yoke of Spain was thrown off; and poor as that tradition was there has been nothing since to take its place. That the United States could go into Mexico, take over the government completely, and forcibly graft onto the nation a tradition of government, is generally admitted...
...facts. For example, the American method of computing displacement tonnage differs from the British method and the Japanese method. Questions were raised that could not be answered without reference to facts not obtainable in this country. For example, the date for the withdrawal of Japanese post offices from Chinese soil could not be fixed until the Japanese delegates could get from Tokio and official estimate of the time it would take to make the necessary transfer...
...foreign postoffices on Chinese soil the delegates here have taken more definite action. They have agreed to abolish, them, and have only temporarily postponed naming the date after which China will administer all postoffices within her borders. Thirty or forty years ago, as the Chinese themselves admit, the Chinese methods of communication were inadequate and unsatisfactory. Now, however, the Chinese postal system is so good that there is no reason for the existence of postoffices under foreign control. More than that, these foreign postoffices made smuggling easy. The only conditions which the Powers here make to the abolition of them...