Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert K. Scarbacher, of Miami, Florida in Electrical Engineering; James D. Parsons '35, of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, in Soil Mechanics; Matti H. Pakkala, of Washington, D. C., in Metallurgy; Tsung-Hwa Suh, of Shanghai, China in Neurology...
...diet limited to soybeans is not fed to livestock because it makes them too fat. But farmers can feed them the meal left over after the oil has been extracted. Silage made from soy plants mixed with cornstalks produces more milk, more meat than straight corn silage. For overworked soil, nitrogenous soy plants are a good builder-up. A green crop of them plowed under will often increase the yield of wheat 6 bu. per acre...
...pranksters, who would seem to be the only two brains in Holly-wood. Roy Roberts, in the role of one of these, probably carries off the acting honors. He represents a scenario writer who would much rather be back in Vermont writing a book of the soil, and who consequently treats his associates, especially the cowboy and the preposterously pedantic boss, with highly amused condescension. His greatest coup is the bringing to prominence of Happy and Happy's mother. Mario Brown in the part of the latter throws some new light on the art of being an ingenue. She gets...
...disappearing!" cried the Spaniard in his best passage. "Just as in the 16th Century in Europe men took sides and fought in the name of two religious ideals, Catholicism and Protestantism, so today, it would appear, men are divided by two political ideals, democracy and oppression. . . . The blood-stained soil of Spain is already, in fact, the battlefield of a world...
...respiratory or circulatory system in any way related to that of an earthworm. It can live under anaerobic [without free oxygen] conditions. The earthworm is a free-living species inhabiting not man, but the ground. It feeds on substances in the soil rather than those of the human gut. It has no chitinous coat. It is dependent upon a circulatory system with not merely a single heart but five pairs of these organs through which circulates blood containing both corpuscles and hemoglobin. Except for its shape, there is nothing which under any consideration could be used as an excuse...