Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most fundamental human emotions are convincingly portrayed against the solid background of good Connecticut farm soil in "The Wedding Night." Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Helen Vinson, and Tarka, a Chinese cook, all take full advantage of good parts...
...April 1 was estimated to yield 435,499,000 bu.- 69% of normal. That was slightly more than last year's yield, but far below the 618,000,000-bu. average of the last five years. East of the Mississippi, and particularly in the Ohio Valley where the soil was moist, crops were in good condition. But west of the river, in the ten States chiefly affected by drought and dust, more than 40% of the winter wheat seeded last autumn was expected to fail. Hardest hit was Kansas where rainfall in March was only 56% of normal...
...which Realmleader Hitler agreed not to invade the Polish Corridor adjoining Danzig. Last week Danzig Nazi gangsters hounded and harried candidates of other parties so mercilessly that Danzig Socialists and members of Danzig Catholic Center Party had to hold their political rallies just outside the Free City on Polish soil. Irish Sean Lester, the resident High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig, tried to uphold the right of free speech last week but was met with guffaws by new Danzig Nazi Premier Dr. Arthur Greiser...
...Speeding at an estimated 80 kilometres per hour, the car nearly ran down a Swiss frontier guard who jumped aside just in time, plunged out of Switzerland and into Germany where it stopped. Same night Jacob was announced by Nazi newsorgans to have been "caught and arrested on German soil." Dr. Wesemann incautiously returned to Basle and was nabbed by Swiss detectives to whom he confessed. Last week the Swiss Government officially informed the German Government that Wesemann is held as hostage for the safety and release from Germany of Jacob...
Yale and Harvard have been playing football, and on British soil. To be sure the game was not under the rules revised each year for the colleges of the United States. The game was English rugby, "rugger" for short, and it was the climax of football week in Bermuda. But the boys who were the crimson and the blue were students at Cambridge, Mass., and New Haven, Conn., off where the sun is warm for their Spring vacation...