Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours the guns roared, and their shellbursts walked through the steel plant. The Jap reply from shore batteries was only a whispered echo. The "sacred soil" of Japan, from which the Kamikaze (divine wind) was supposed to disperse all attackers, had been violated...
Knut Hamsun, Norway's 85-year-old Nobel Prizewinning novelist (Growth of the Soil), pleaded not guilty to a charge of collaboration-but admitted his pro-Nazi sympathies and wore his Norwegian Nazi Party badge to court...
...commission did not flatter itself that it had the final solution to the Church's problems: "We do not argue that evangelism by advertising will effect conversions [but] we do believe . . . that [it] may prove of incalculable value in the preliminary stage of preparing the soil . . . and can bring into touch with the Church . . . thousands now thirsting for spiritual strength and peace at heart...
...should have men who would be able to wrestle not only with the religious problems but furnish some leadership for the community in all of its aspects." The school was nonsectarian, but most of the preacher-students were Methodists. Instructors skirted doctrinal mat ters, stressed the cold facts of soil conservation, health, education. Classes were highly informal, with the preachers lounging in overstuffed chairs and enthusiastically shouting "Amen!" when a speaker made a telling point. After two weeks of hard study, most of them took a night off to see the Atlanta Crackers baseball club wallop Nashville...
...monolithic state enterprise. Except for independent academies in Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, all Soviet science is under the direction of the Soviet Academy. Within this organization are 76 research institutes, 11 independent laboratories, six observatories, 42 meteorological and astronomical stations, 73 libraries and 16 museums. The Soil Research Institute in Moscow alone is an eight-story building covering more than a city block...