Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal-State subsidies for soil conservation, water conservation, and flood control, "with local administration in the hands of the farmers themselves...
...they breathed was permeated with the doctrines of a universal church; since the Reformation in Protestant countries these have undergone a slow and varied metamorphosis. But the essence of the university tradition has remained constant. From the first foundations to the present, four main streams have watered the soil on which the universities have flourished. These ultimate sources of strength are: first, the cultivation of learning for its own sake; secondly, the general educational stream of the liberal arts: thirdly, the educational stream that makes possible the professions; and, lastly, the never-failing river of student life carrying...
...into the native vernacular for the convenience of his copper-skinned neighbors, but for the rest, I was only aware of the Rev. John Harvard's desire to build himself an "Institute for the Advancement of Learning" for fear that otherwise the true doctrines might disappear from the American soil when he and hiis fellow-ministers should lie in the dust...
...face the question of what kind of work they ought to do. ... Thousands of ponds or small reservoirs have been built. . . . Thousands of wells have been drilled or deepened; community lakes have been created and irrigation projects are being pushed. ... In the Middle West . . . work projects run more to soil-erosion control and the building of farm-to-market roads...
Waste (Bobbs-Merrill, 50?) by the same author is an engineer's popularization of the problems of soil erosion, drought, deforestation, soil fertility, etc. Towards the end Waste marches on into a New Deal view of unemployment and relief. Potentiality: 25,000 votes for Roosevelt...