Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evacuation of the Rhineland has been discussed for nine years. It has been in progress for four and a half years. The outside world paid little attention last week to what was the passing of actually the last French soldiers from German soil. In Germany it was the most momentous hour since the Armistice. Bonfires blazed along the Rhine from Switzerland to Holland. Churchbells rang in towns throughout Germany. In Berlin a battery of howitzers shook the Linden trees with an earsplitting 21-gun salute. The Reich swam in beer...
...taking off from Portniar-nock, Ireland. This was the fog that had swallowed Nungesser and CoU; Hamilton and the Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim; that nearly claimed von Huenefeld and the Bremen pilots. Now their own fuel was running low. No chance of making New York nonstop, or even U. S. soil. They must be somewhere near Harbor Grace Newfoundland, but how see the airport through such a fog? Then came a rift. The plane dived through it to a perfect landing at Harbor Grace. Thus last week after 31 trying hours, the Fokker Southern Cross, already famed for its flight from...
...island of Bali, just east of Java, due south of Borneo, is owned by Holland but enjoys a rare domestic independence. The Dutch policy is Bali for the Balinese. With an extremely fertile soil, Bali raises and exports pigs, cattle, copra, coffee. Says Author Powell: the Balinese are furthermore the most artistic race in the world...
...life of the time, and contrasts this with the life of the Indians. Each century is taken up in detail, and from many points of view. The religious difficulties, the alarms of witchcraft, the role played by the sea in the life of New England, the struggle with the soil dominate the reels on the seventeenth century...
...Egyptian government maintains an agreement with foreign powers that all archaeological material found in Egyptian soil shall be divided equally between Egypt and the finder. Equal division in quantity is relatively simple, but equal division in quality offers great problems. In 1912 German Archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt quietly extracted from Tel-el-Amarna, and removed to Berlin, a gracile bust of Queen Nefertiti which was more precious to Egyptians than tons of jeweled bric-a-brac. First, it was supposed to possess magical properties. Second, it was pronounced by worldwide experts to be among the loveliest creations of the ancient dynasties...