Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Free State retaliated in kind and a first-rate tariff war was on. Last week Mr. de Valera, according to reports which leaked out from the meeting, turned up with an almost inspired proposal. As salve to his own people, he suggested that British naval bases on Irish soil be turned over to Eire, that England be allowed to use them and other bases to be built. As salve to England, he offered to pay as Eire's share of the upkeep of these defense works $25,000,000 a year-the amount of the disputed land annuities. Thus...
...that even at the time of the sinking of the "Lusitania," there was no real economic need for entering the conflict. We know now that at all events, the costs of isolation, if there are any, are never greater than the cost of participating in a war on foreign soil, for foreign interests and foreign capital...
Turn her lose on her native soil with a scenario written by Coquette, and her lack of inhibitions can be almost frightening, but since her "discovery" and importation a year or so ago, she has played the the part of the unwordly, impulsive, sometimes petulant little girls with increasing skill and grace. It is her performance that makes "Love and Hisses" enjoyable and well seeing...
...Farmers include a grimy farmer drinking water from a tin cup beside his tractor, Tip Estes' family of eight sitting down to dinner, three farmers talking things over in the general store, a group of striking farmers fleeing from tear gas, the fingers of erosion tearing away the soil...
Discouragement, delay, the difficulties of learning English, a sea voyage enlivened by the sight of pirates did not cool Mother Duchesne's ardor for civilizing the "savages" of the New World. The first thing she did when she stepped ashore was kiss the boggy soil of Louisiana. It took her and her four colleagues 40 days to ascend the river to St. Louis. The nuns were placed aft on the steamboat because of the ever-present danger of exploding boilers. The account of Mother Duchesne's work-which did not come to an end until 1852-occupies half...