Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week between a Baltimore newshawk and Most Rev. Michael Joseph Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore. Next day Archbishop Curley was to pontificate at a solemn military field mass in Baltimore Stadium, in commemoration of triple anniversaries-the 300th of the founding of Maryland and the first Catholic mass on Maryland soil, the 100th of the birth of the late great James Cardinal Gibbons, the 20th of Archbishop Curley's consecration as bishop. With good weather, 100,000 pious folk might be present to fill the stadium as it never had been filled before, and to participate in the largest...
...George White's Scandals-Produced by Fox. It seems difficult for George White to produce any type of entertainment he does not soil. . . . Protest. . . . Protest...
...hero is a youth of middle-class background and literary ambitions who graduated from college between 1916 and 1922. School and college began the long process of deracination. ''Looking backwards, I feel that our whole training was involuntarily directed toward destroying whatever roots we had in the soil, toward eradicating our local and regional peculiarities, toward making us homeless citizens. . . . We came to feel that wisdom was an attribute of Greece and art of the Renaissance, that glamour belonged only to Paris or Vienna and that glory was confined to the dim past. . . . Essentially we were taught...
...uniform, on the theory that in uniform there is no higher title or power than that of general; whereas by the process of foregoing the title, the power may be vastly increased. The members of this family have always been uniquely international. When their vast Lorraine estates lay upon soil politically German they attached to their name the prefix von and turned their eyes toward Berlin: when the political frontier shifted under their rich deposits of coal and iron, they altered the prefix to de and looked to Paris...
...hips of crumbling skeletons with tightly bent legs. Up two long flights of steps carved by sweating natives in the clay walls of the pit were carried 770 vessels of alabaster, gypsum, limestone, diorite. and some of copper, all buried long before the Patriarch Abraham trod the same soil...