Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan for a national Power policy, including soil conservation, flood control, navigation...
When McClellan invaded the Peninsula, fought his way almost to the outskirts of Richmond, social abysses began to close and the sacred soil of Virginia cracked open in other places. Before the terrible Seven Days' Battle was over, the abyss between Mildred and Brose was almost closed with corpses in grey. By the time McClellan drew off his battered army and Lee invaded Maryland, Mildred had painfully confessed to Brose that she loved...
...large numbers that gathered around Widener last night testify to the popularity of these Glee Club sessions, and the firm roots that they have planted in Harvard soil. They are as characteristic of the Harvard spirit as any one thing can be, in that they are a combination of the informal, the intellectual, the esthetic, and the sociable. Besides this they give as much pleasure to the residents of Cambridge and the average passer-by as they do to the undergraduate himself...
...what a stench! Black maggots, tasteless, fleshy matter. Food. Green food. Those hills he had read of, those places where the soil was rich, and good, clean, food grew. Stew! Brew, grew, stew, whew...
There was no Newshawk Matthews to provide a trustworthy analysis of the number of foreigners fighting for the Rightists last week, but most impartial reporters on the spot agree that there are 40,000 Italian soldiers on Spanish soil, 20,000 Germans. Thousands of Italian troops unappreciative of the political differences which have set Spanish brothers at one another's throats, have genuinely volunteered for Spanish service for the sake of a bonus dangled before them by Dictator Mussolini, of from 1,000 to 3,000 lire ($53 to $159). Other Italian soldiers have simply been notified that volunteers...