Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eliot's meat and drawbridge the wayfaring Freshman may find refuge in the hostel of undergraduate vitality, midst the Georgian stretches of Kirkland House. Sacrificing towers, gothic frills and the trimmings to the more pretentious castles along Mt. Auburn Street, Kirkland has watched its legend grow from the strong soil of diverse interests that make up this cosmopolitan House. More than any other, Kirkland has managed to fuse its genuine cross-section of Harvard into a tightly-working group that yearly supports its teams with periodic rallies, and its activities with the only House yearbook to grace local shelves...
...pseudonym meaning approximately Swami-Bliss-through-Divine-Union) is something of a document. It is not likely to give the uninitiated much insight into India's ancient teachings. It does show exceedingly well how an alien culture may change when transplanted by a businesslike nurseryman from the tough soil of religious asceticism into hothouses of financial wealth and spiritual despair...
...told a convention of Empire Communists that the party (which had been banned in 1940) was going right on operating under its new Labor Progressive name. It now claimed 24,000 members and, boasted Buck, was making great strides in Ontario. But British Columbia was still "the most fertile soil...
...tools and gadgets which were finally being produced in quantity. The fanciest was a four-wheeled, gasoline-driven lawn mower with a unique rotary blade-it worked something like a floor-waxer. Price: $179.50. Runners-up were an electric hedge clipper ($44.50) and a flamethrower for killing weeds and soil bacteria ($23.50). Much postwar equipment was made of light-weight metals; there were a rubber-tired magnesium wheelbarrow (16 Ibs., $34.50), and an aluminum rake ($5). Neater still, there was a garden hose made of amber-colored, semi-transparent plastic ($13-35 for 50 feet). In the routine descriptive words...
...number of them, in a pact signed with the Polish Government in Exile in London in June 1941. The Soviets promised amnesty to "all Polish citizens at present deprived of their liberty" in the U.S.S.R. so that a Polish army could be raised and trained on Soviet soil. There were thousands so freed, and thousands who were...