Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words scarcely had a chance to sink into the awareness of the U.S. public when the West Coast, on guard and tense along 3,250 miles of shore, received the first attack on continental U.S. soil. A submarine emerged from the sea about seven miles north of Santa Barbara, Calif., and for 20 minutes lobbed shells at an oil refinery. First reports: little damage; no one was injured; no fires were started; most of the 25 shells fired exploded in a field; frightening horses; one went over Highway 101, burst in the foothills. The attack began...
...winter had been mild: days bright with sunshine, nights when snow fell gently on the waiting land. Now the soil was dry and good, ready to come to life with the first warm breezes. In the rich black loam of Lyon County, farmers al ready were sowing oats, a full three weeks early...
Military work is also the chief present concern of the station's soil-mechanics laboratory, which was added in 1931 to study river silts and the shape, seepage and settling of levees and earthen dams. Soil engineers and chemists now study design of military airports, use of cemented soils for runways (TIME, Nov. 17). And a cell first designed to measure pressures within earthen dams is now used by the Army to record effects of explosions on experimental air-raid shelters...
...Russia he said: "The Russian armies have not been defeated. . . . They are advancing victoriously, driving the foul invaders from that native soil they have guarded so bravely and loved so well...
...roomy Iowa City house, where his principal hobby was gardening, he lived in dignified semiretirement, entertained a continual stream of distinguished visitors, shook a gentle fist at Bohemia and the big cities, and preached the gospel of U.S. regionalism and the Iowa soil. More than any other U.S. painter, he had expressed the unashamed simplicity and dignified realism that lay behind the complacent, materialistic exterior of rural Midwestern life. Other painters might see and paint again the plain, practical beauty of the Iowa landscape. But Grant Wood had discovered...