Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the abundant life had not yet come to the tough, dry soil of Mexico's high plateaus. Under Avila Camacho, the leftist revolution which he inherited was now-by his deliberate design-wandering down the middle of the road. But, to an ancient land, now feeling the pangs and exhilarations of industrial pioneering, war had brought millions of U.S. dollars...
...members and staffs of Engineering 270, 260, and Soil Engineers and your friends are cordially invited to come and enjoy dancing, entertainment and refreshments. We'll be seeing you Saturday, April 17th...
...beyond dilettantism, in agriculture, architecture, languages, literature, music, religion, astronomy, zoology, chemistry, mathematics. He designed Monticello, filled it with inventions like the first dumbwaiter, first swivel chair, a weather vane which could be read by a dial indoors. He introduced the first upland rice and cork oak to U.S. soil...
...Berlin radio reminded jittery Italians that the war was becoming a defense of Italian soil. The Italian press loudly reminded the people of Sicily that they must act with courage "the nearer the danger approached...
...floss, and inventor of the machines for processing it, is mild, spectacled Dr. Boris Berkman, onetime director of the Pasteur Institute in Moscow, for 20 years a surgeon on the staff of Chicago's Grant Hospital. He discovered one value of milkweed during a study of soil erosion. Its root system allows it to thrive on soil that is worthless for other use, and it binds the soil instead of breaking it. One million pounds of the floss could be collected from wild growth on marginal land in Emmet County, Mich, alone...