Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief of the Soviet Far Eastern Army, began to bristle. Five thousand miles from Dictator Stalin, in Khabarovsk, Siberia (which is only 480 miles from Vladivostok) bristling Commander Blucher shouted at his Red Soldiers: "We won't permit any White Guard imperialistic rascals to tread upon our socialistic soil with their dirty feet! If any one is thinking of stretching forth his dirty paws toward our coal, forests or other riches, then let it be understood that for every ton of coal, every cord of wood, every tractor, we will fight...
...commanders ("officers" have been abolished) who entered free, loudly cheered by passersby. But the great day was not a holiday for Soviet civilians?Josef Stalin saw to that, and Soviet newsorgans dared print nothing stronger than the Dictator's slogan: "We do not want a single inch of foreign soil but we will not give up a single inch...
...natives of the Dutch East Indian island of Bali are lazy, rich, amenable, clever. Their soil is so fertile that they can raise three crops a year with almost no effort. They divide their spare time between the practice of the arts (music, dancing, sculpture) and the practice of eccentric rites, such as building wooden statues to serve as decoys for devils. Balinese music influenced Debussy. Balinese dancers inspired that able U. S. dancer, Ruth Page (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929). Even before Hickman Powell's travel book, The Last Paradise, Bali was on its way toward becoming the latest...
...Kennelly has just returned from the Far East, where he gave a series of lectures on electrical engineering at six Japanese universities. "From Sendie in the North to Fuknoka in the South we were treated with the utmost courtesy at all times. From the time we landed on Nipponnese soil until we embarked for America again, we were always accompanied by former students of mine and being continually entertained by the people of the universities...
...airplanes to come and get them. As a final gesture the besiegers set fire to the wood. When the green trees would not burn, they shrugged their shoulders and went back to La Paz. Argentina made a formal protest to Uruguay that the revolt was hatched on Uruguayan soil. When Dr. Adolfo Guemes and Dr. Jose Luis Cantillo, Radical Party politicians, reached Buenos Aires from Montevideo they were promptly arrested, soon released. Onetime President Hipolito Irigoyen, about whom all the rumpus centred, was coughing with bronchitis on Martin Garcia Island. Dictator Uriburu ordered the new Congress convoked Jan. 20, promised...