Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Younger Britons know the son-blessed young Maharaja as a keen sportsman. Elder Britons recall how his foster father the late Maharaja of Jaipur came to King-Emperor Edward VII's coronation in London "without leaving Jaipur soil." This he smartly did by taking with him a large boxful of the said soil, upon which he squatted in London when he ate his meals, quaffed Jaipur water...
British Dominions, of course, will receive a 100-70 rebate on the Runciman tariffs thus escaping them completely. It appeared last week that goods manufactured by U. S.-owned plants on Empire soil would similarly escape. In the past eight months U. S. citizens have bought 154 new factory sites in Great Britain, and 500 U. S.-owned or leased factories were humming last week in the United Kingdom...
California's first football venture on New England soil will be heralded today at 1.30 o'clock in the Stadium when the big red Stanford team clashes with Dartmouth in their annual intersectional battle, the last important gridiron contest of the year in this vicinity...
...Vikings soon found themselves isolated by the breaking up of their Norwegian-built ships. There was no timber on the island which they could use to build new ones and the barreness of the soil soon drove the nation into extreme poverty. They lived very peacefully, especially during the 11th and 12th centuries, using all their energy in fighting the cold and repairing the damage done by volcano eruption
Undenominational, coeducational, Piney Woods has today 300 pupils drawn mainly from the deep Black Belt of Mississippi. They are taught to till the soil on its 1,500 acres of land, to teach in its Normal Department, to master trades, elementary subjects. Principal Jones, 47, a leader in Negro Y. M. C. A. work in Mississippi, member of the National Negro Press Association (executive committee) and the National Negro Business League, has worked hard with his school...