Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Extensive excavation is now being carried on in the Eliot House courtyard preparatory to planting a large number of bushes and flowers. Due to the lack of proper soil, loam will hare to be filled in to the extent of about two feet. About 15 trees have been planted recently...
Career: Scion of the soil, he studied at Livingstone Academy, taught school, attended Geneva...
...Ireland her own?Ireland her own, and all therein, from the sod to the sky. The soil of Ireland for the people of Ireland, to have and to hold from God alone who gave it?to have and to hold to them and to their heirs forever, without suit or service, rent or render, faith or fealty to any power under heaven...
...relations. If we were entirely free: if Ireland were an independent democracy, entirely mistress of her destiny within her natural frontiers, I, for my part, would favor a very friendly political understanding with Great Britain. But as long as there exists against us a menacing fortress on our own soil, and we must live, so to speak, in a state of suspicion, true friendship can never be born between the two nations...
...soil that I dig up here [wrote Jeffers of Cawdor and Other Poems] to plant trees or lay foundation stones, is full of Indian eavings, seashells and flint scrapers. . . . Not only generations but races too drizzle away so fast, one wonders the more urgently what it is for. . . ." Poet Jeffers has already shown how, against the desert western American landscape, the characters of his imagination, impelled by Greekish lusts, drizzle themselves away. In Thurso's Landing he writes his most native American, least Greekish tragedy, leaving sexual perversion almost entirely out. Its terrors are more Amerindian than Greek...