Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Position. In strategic values, the German victory was complete. Except for Gibraltar, Britain now had not one square foot of continental European soil under its military control, and had no immediate prospect of getting a major point of reentry. The Germans had every prospect of being able to go on to further triumphs...
Even the Foreign Minister seemed to be indulging in wishful thinking on that point. Scarcely had he set foot on Japanese soil than he delivered himself of a speech in which he said: "It is extremely reckless to maintain relations with persons that one has not even met. Only a fool or a genius can do that...
...their mortal peril," said a grave and sorrowful Churchill, "the Greeks turned to us for succor. . . . They declared they would fight for their native soil . . . even if we left them to their fate. But we could not do that. There are rules against that kind of thing. . . . An act of shame would deprive us of . . . respect . . . and thus would sap the vitals of our strength...
...idea that the craters might once have been made by huge artesian springs now dried up. Long ago, when the Atlantic Coastal Plain first rose above sea level, there was as yet no surface drainage system to tap underground waters. Instead, the water bubbled up through the sandy soil. To test his theory, Professor Johnson re-explored the Carolina craters and found startling confirmation: old wave marks and runoff channels which geologists never noticed while they were blinded by a false hypothesis...
...first U.S. entomologists knew nothing about the insect. The beetle is not troublesome in Japan because 1) scarcely a rood of Japanese soil is left untilled for its grubs to flourish in, 2) natural enemies check its increase. So Japanese scientists were able to offer only one fact-that the beetles were attracted to light-and that proved unreliable...