Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Poles were so afraid of . losing access to the sea through Danzig that they rushed to the nearby fishing village of Gdynia on Polish soil and started building a 100% Polish port. From a population of 300 Gdynia has increased to 30,000 and from the new city great docks stretch their fingers out into the Baltic. Obviously Poles poured millions of zlotys into building Gdynia because they believed Danzig to be autonomous, a Free City under the protection of the League...
...George. In the Vatican Pope Pius washed the feet of twelve foreign priests. Most Italian priests per: formed a pedilavium in their own dioceses. In Fontainebleau Alfonso XIII announced that for the first time since his coronation he would wash no feet. Said he: "Because I am on French soil, I will observe Easter in accordance with French customs, attending Church as a simple worshiper...
...ground where Oldoway lay buried was pleistocene, judged to be a million years old. Was this modern-looking man buried in ancient soil fairly recently, or did he live & die in the pleistocene period of glaciers and subhuman creatures? Professor Reck believed the latter...
...Ireland alone and 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 for them and their heirs forever, without suit or service,, rent or render, faith or fealty to any power under heaven...
...Premiers Livres de I'lliade", Paris, 1545; Ovid, La Metamorphose, Lyons, 1557 with woodcuts by "Le Petit Bernard"; and Geoffrey Tory's Aediloquium, Paris, 1530, illustrated by the author. Holbein's Old Testament and Dance of Death, although the work of a German artist, were printed on French soil. Of the Dance of Death there are on exhibition the first edition and two other editions in each of which new illustrations were added...