Word: soils
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Last week, the Mexican Government remembered Jaime Nuño, sent an army bomber (the first Mexican war plane to fly over U.S. soil in World War II) to fetch his remains from Buffalo. To the strains of a string quartet and a speech by Mayor Joseph J. Kelly, Composer Nuño's body was exhumed and started on its southward flight. In Mexico City a military guard of honor, 300 music conservatory students and a parade of thousands of school children waited to bear the coffin to Mexico's magnificent Monumento de la Revoluti...
While gullibles rolled their eyes, responsible Negroes hoped such claptrap would not find fertile soil. Said Mr. U. S. Falls, vice president of the National Negro Business League: "America need have no fear of the Negro turning traitor if the true principles of democracy are applied to us as to every other minority group...
Across the Channel? BBC broadcast: "Today it is more necessary than ever to envisage the possibility of landings by British and Allied troops on French soil...
...little eloquent evangelist, who produced big eloquent structures, Architect Cram lived scarcely more than bodily in the 20th Century. His intense spiritual life was in "the 13th, greatest of centuries," when the faith of a united Christendom bloomed in stone cathedrals from the hard soil of feudal Europe. More than any other one person Cram was responsible for the Gothic revival in U.S. architecture...
Some of the islands have no vegetation worth mentioning, and what few palms and bushes there are were planted in soil that was shipped in. Otherwise, all is coral -white, brilliant, mean. The glare from this whiteness probably would drive men mad in time. That is why the defenders of the coral atolls can expect to be relieved after perhaps a year. (A Naval officer noticed three of his tough marines playing marbles one day. Another was flapping his arms, playing airplane. The marines were beginning to crack after 18 long months of close confinement. By now they have been...