Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years later he was back, organizing the Polish Socialist Party on Russian soil. A few years later found Conspirator Pilsudski doing in Poland exactly what Conspirator Stalin was doing in Russia proper: leading a gang of highway robbers and bank raiders whose object was to seize money for political propaganda. Even in those days Nikolai Lenin knew that Josef Pilsudski was no Socialist at heart. Said...
...Philadelphia's Independence Hall. There, on a table from Abraham Lincoln's law office and after the Fordson High School band played "Stars & Stripes Forever" and Handel's "Largo," Mr. Garvan solemnly wrote his name at the end of a lengthy Declaration of Dependence Upon the Soil and of the Right of Self-Maintenance...
...Declaration: "When in the course of the life of a nation, its people become neglectful of the laws of nature and of nature's God, so that their very existence is put in peril, necessity impels them to turn to the soil in order to recover the right of self-maintenance...
...Through the timely unfolding of nature's laws, modern science has placed new tools in the hands of man which enable a variety of surplus products of the soil to be transformed through organic chemistry into raw materials usable in industry. . . . It is nature's plan. . . . It demands no appropriations from the public treasury. . . . It depends upon individual initiative and sweat of the brow...
Kansans began importing greyhounds 65 years ago to rid their lands of jack rabbits. Now Kansas raises more greyhounds than any other state. In it dwell 67% of National Coursing Association members. The springy sod of Abilene's Coursing Park, best in the land, was selected after soil tests in 20 Kansas towns. Last autumn the park was planted with barley. Last fortnight it was mowed down to a bright green turf; a space 450 yd. long and 200 yd. wide was fenced by wire. Every day last week 1,000 to 5,000 spectators went to the park...