Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pius XI's continual commands for public and private morality and his railing at the modern cinema fertilized the soil for this roguery. The Manhattan flimflammers went into Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, six States which contain one-half the U. S. Roman Catholic population,* and found priests eager to hear the prospectus of their "National Diversified Corp." The corporation proposed to make "movie and talkie pictures of thoroughly high-class, moral type, such as would appeal to church people." They promised that their major picture, Mary the Virgin, would be reverent in plot, the scenes...
...properly born, trained, educated and healthy moral children to the voters and officials of America-most of our native criminal class are products of city slums. If these children were watched and nurtured a criminal type of child would not develop. . . . We must see that their roots have proper soil to put their precious tendrils into. City children must not be denied grass and flowers, fields and streams-all the imaginative surroundings that are a part of nature. . . . Ten years will see the start of this new generation. We can move swiftly after that. Why, today we think little...
...name was scratched on a piece of limestone Dr. Eleazar Lipa Sukenik, archeologist of the University of Jerusalem, dug out of the dry soil of the Holy Land last week. When he got it free of dirt, he deciphered it: JESHUA BAR JOHOSEPH (Jesus, Son of Joseph). The limestone proved to be one side of a boxlike ossuary, similar to many found in that district, built to contain the thighbone of the deceased...
Gabriel Sash was a stony acorn who planted himself in Kentucky soil in 1769. He was a hunter, and by way of being a desperate character. Living in a settlement drove him nigh crazy, and when he had stood the confinement of married life six months, he lit out for the woods and never came back. But he left behind him the beginnings of the Sash family. His only-son, James, was a mild-tempered man, who spent most of his life fighting the Indians, French, English. After the wars were over, he married a beautiful nun and settled down...
...mammalogist of the American Museum of Natural History, in a monograph on meadow mice, The Biology of the Voles of New York, published in the current bulletin of the Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station, Syracuse, N. Y. Mouse Man Hatt's brief for mice: They till the soil with their burrowings, are especially helpful in wet lowlands when their tunnels act as drains. Like the earthworm they bring subsoil to the surface, carry vegetable matter underground to enrich the soil. Excreta and dead mice are good fertilizers. the mouse furnishes carnivorous animals with a handy dinner...