Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Casagrande was graduated from the Technical University in Vienna in 1924, and has since been employed in research by the Carnegie Steel Company and the United States Bureau of Public Roads. He will give one course in Soil Mechanics and conduct research in that field while at Harvard...
...basis of 1830 methods six million men would have been needed to cultivate the soil for the 1929 U. S. wheat crop. With the best extant equipment (such as 60-duckfoot gang plows) 4,000 men could have planted the whole crop...
...supply demand for such bats numerous Englishmen took to growing plantations of cricket willows, making comfortable fortunes therefrom. But lately growers complained to England's Forest Products Research Laboratories that their bat crops were imperfect. The Laboratories asked Dr. Joseph Burtt Davy to investigate. He found that soil, soil-moisture or climate could have nothing to do with the case, because select and outlaw cricket bat willows grew on the same plantation. He urged further study to follow up his suspicion-that good bat willows and bad bat willows depend on the botanical strains and perhaps...
...male and female pupils his basic architectural law: that the architect must integrate his building with its surroundings (function, terrain, climate), make plain its structural elements and if possible develop them as ornamentation. He would teach them the feel of materials by having them blast stone, hew timber, dig soil, work in a machine-shop. They would study, sweat, play and brood in unison. They would be called, not ''students'' as in other colleges, but by the fine old medieval guild word, "apprentice." Last week Architect Wright had done something about his school idea...
When wheat grains fell by accident in a kitchen garden, it was discovered that great crops would grow in Colorado soil. A degree of permanence began to invade Denver. Some Denverites began to sleep nights. Others carried Denver's early rough-&-toughness to a plush & gilt extreme in the night life of Larimer and Curtis Streets. A block north was Market Street, one of the U. S.'s worst red light districts. Organized gambling and prostitution were open and reputable until...