Word: soils
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Arizona Roots. When the call to the ambassadorship came last week, Lew Douglas was in Phoenix which he still calls home. His family roots are deep in Arizona's arid soil. His grandfather left Scotland and a career as a scholar to go prospecting, and hit the jackpot with the fabulous Copper Queen mine at Bisbee. His father, "Rawhide Jim" Douglas, discovered the U.V.X. mine...
...maintains its dignity despite the aqueous encroachments of the University. Rising from its headwaters in the town of Hopkinton, southwest of Cambridge, the Charles follows a circuitons course for sixty-nine miles to its mouth in Boston Bay, draining along its way about 300 square miles of good Massachusetts soil. Twenty-six artificial dams scattered along the river might interest any men who contemplate an upstream journey in a canoe to Wellesley...
...indication of Nazi-mindedness-it is a human and inevitable harking back to times when things were better (in a material sense). The future is an utter blank. To escape into the past is the only way out. Were the occupation forces to withdraw, a demagogue might find fruitful soil, as Adolf Hitler did 20 years ago. Given a leader, the Germans would again follow, as they have followed before. But today they have no leadership whatever and no goal. If they are given a goal, they may follow democracy. In any case, as long as the occupation forces remain...
...Stones God Threw. In Athens last week, the people were retelling an old story: when God made the world, He poured all the earth through a sieve and put down some good soil here, which was one country, and some there, which was another; then He threw all the stones over His shoulder, and that was Greece. Through the centuries Greeks managed to compensate for their hard lot (only 15% of Greece's land is arable) by organizational skill, trading talent and unflagging enterprise...
Upper New York State grappling did not agree too well with the Crimson Varsity wrestling team as it lost a rough 25 to 3 match to a Syracuse powerhouse on foreign soil Friday evening, and the next day proceeded to drop a close 16 to 14 match to the Big Red of Cornell at Ithaca...