Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example, witness the photograph of a thoroughly scoured and denuded area of southern Newfoundland which was unquestionably crossed by very recent ice. Here (at Burgeo) the granitic hills are absolutely stripped of all soil and rotten rock-mantle, and the conspicuously striated ledges contain gourges which look as if they might have been hacked only yesterday by a sharp mattock or heavy chisel. In this region, too, great boulders as large as small houses are scattered irregularly over the hills, the boulders having fresh and undecayed surfaces...
...Congress: In seniority of service he is the fourth ranking member of the Iowa delegation. So firmly entrenched is he, politically, in the soil of his district that no man has dared oppose him in primary or election for the last six years. He has risen to be chairman of the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee which handles all U.S. funds for Agriculture...
...recent murders. The girl-perhaps the detective would choose to describe Maria Hahn- the girl was returning home at dusk when she was seized upon and subjected to such-and-such cruelty, slashed in such-and-such a way, murdered thus-and-so, finally buried in soft clay soil near a farmhouse...