Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany last week the gesticulating mobsmen were wrought up over a new phylloxera paradox. They were all peasants who have planted a particularly coarse American vine which flourishes on German soil almost without care. Growing like a weed, it yields mass production quantities of a crude, strong wine which can be sold to workmen's taverns at a big profit per acre. Abounding in strength, the American vine carries without harm to itself a phylloxera louse which is now spreading with deadly results to the laboriously tended German vines of neighboring estates in the Rkeinpfalz...
Could they observe the careers of their grandsons, most great men would be moved either to laughter or tears. Grandfather Millet was simple, pious, one generation removed from the soil. His first artistic efforts occurred after he had studied some Biblical engravings. He righteously abandoned the painting of nudes after he had learned to do them splendidly. It is not difficult to imagine how he would have regarded the story, pieced together from rumors, which was being circulated last week while his grandson awaited trial. The story...
...terms of gift the chateau and its 1,000 acres are created a "perpetual retreat" at the disposal of professors of the Sorbonne. At scholarly ease in the magnificent palace, the professors will enjoy among other things the chief product ot the village of Richelieu, "diamonds of the soil," truffles...
...prelude introduces it and the young girls encircle, glorify the one. Ancestors are invoked who around her as she starts the propitiatory dance. Fearfully, madly she moves to crazy cross-grained rhythms, falls dead finally across a human pyre built hastily that her body may not touch the sacred soil...
...nakedness a rich in its luxury, so warm with sun and so cold in pitiless rain, so gentle and pastoral, so wild and lonely; with sea and lake and river there is always the sound of running water, and its strong people have their feet in the soil and are independent of all men." Cumbrian natives say the same thing in fewer words: "Canny auld Cumberland bangs them a still...