Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold dead fish in the bottom of his returning boat when Franklin Roosevelt on his voyage southward paused at Trinidad to try a little off-shore trolling. Nor was there anything cold and dead about the streets of Rio de Janeiro last week when he set foot upon Brazilian soil. Upwards of 150,000 Brazilians vented few cheers, but clapped their hands in delight at the sight of the President of the U. S. and their own President Getulio Dornellas Vargas appearing so democratically, side by side in ordinary business suits, as they rode through the city with a motorcycle...
...this high-powered frustrating is evidently going to be done in London was unwelcome news indeed to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, and he was further ruffled by reports that Herr von Ribbentrop had told Der Führer that the English of 1936 simply will not fight "unless their soil is invaded"-i.e., will not fight as they did in 1914 at the provocation of a German invasion of Belgium...
...dictatorship of the working class will remain and the Communist Party will retain its leading position. If critics see these as defects from the standpoint of the Constitution, that is just too bad, because we Bolsheviki see advantages in them. In the U. S. S. R. there is no soil for several parties. There is soil for only one party, which can only be the Communist Party...
...Munich; others in Paris, St. Moritz or points south. There's a group of six going to the South Seas; there are several leaving for Spain to try to join up with the insurgent forces. Then again there are several Americans who will spend Christmas day on home soil. It is remarkable how the spirit of Christmas, somehow or other entangled with the devices of Cupid, works to take Americans home from abroad...
...conclave which elects the next Pope after Pius XI dies, Cardinal Pacelli could do himself no possible harm by showing himself to the nation whose Catholics give much toward supporting the Church, whose faithful have heretofore never seen a Pope, before or after election, on their own soil...