Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like tribes. From their primitive stage, men of god physique and intelligence were pressed into military service. Under the feudal system, samurai were the "knights" or professional soldiers. They became hereditary warriors who enjoyed special privileges and prestige over their dull and weaker brethren who tilled the soil and engaged in other sorts of civilian life. The samurai were as proud as if they were the guardians of their nation. They believed "might is right" and the sword is justice. So great was their influence that the country came under the domination of their martial spirit, and it became...
Russians? They are very short people, look something like potatoes, and are not afraid of anyone in the world-on their own soil...
...Prince and his escort moved on. They had passed from Finnish soil to soil the Russians had stolen from Finland; now they moved on to soil the Finns had just stolen from Russia-ancient Karelian soil, not Russian, said the Finns. As they went the Finnish officers explained why Finns keep on fighting Russia...
...trees' physiological processes prevents carrying away of the sugars (made with the aid of the fading chlorophyll out of air, water and light) from the leaves. These sugars turn into a class of glucosides called anthocyanins, which are bright red and purple pigments. Anthocyanins develop best where 1) soil is acid. 2) nitrates are scarce, 3) light is abundant. Thus the light-bathed tips of maple leaves and the sunny sides of apples are reddest...
...York (over 600 present) . . . cited Mr. Ickes as follows: "An honest and faithful servant of the people of the United States, you will be remembered by our children as the one who administered fearlessly and without favor those measures which have preserved for them their heritage of soil...