Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known to the British public, and the one known to his attractive, blonde, considerably younger wife, there is a vast difference. To her he is notably attentive. She is always present when he addresses the House of Commons. On their small Sussex estate he putters in the garden, takes soil samples from various spots to be analyzed, constantly plans the big landscaping job he will do when peace eases the tight labor market...
Most people have heard that fluorine probably has something to do with keeping teeth healthy. They have read about the happy, cavity-free citizens of Deaf Smith County, Tex., where fluorine exists in judicious quantities in soil and water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). They have seen movies of Ripley, Ont., which has so much natural fluorine that the dentists' chief occupation is holding citizens' mouths open to display their perfect teeth. These demonstrations make laymen wonder why experimental use of fluorine has been limited to a few small-scale ventures...
...even wish to be voices of the people. Some of these writers have labored for the people; they have fought valiant fights for social justice. But their perceptions have not been of the people. . . . The literary mind of our time is sick. It has lost its roots in the soil of mankind, although it possesses a certain energy. [Writers] had broken their organic bonds with family life, the community, nature, and they wrote in a private language of personal friends; they felt nothing but contempt for the primary realities...
...wild marshes and the dark forests strode soldiers of Poland's Underground Army. They bore aloft their country's red-&-white flag, marched into the Russian lines, presented "declarations of collaboration" to Red Army commanders: "We meet the forces of the Soviet Union on Polish soil as our co-belligerents in the fight against our common enemy, Germany. We bring to your knowledge that there is in existence in these territories an administration secretly organized by the Polish State under the yoke of German occupation...
Thus, in London last week, the Polish Government in Exile pictured the first meetings of Polish and Russian forces. They were meetings fraught with uncertainty: can the Polish underground and the Red Army cooperate on soil whose ownership is bitterly disputed by their respective Governments? Reported London: In two localities the Red Army had "shot" underground soldiers; in 14 localities cooperation had been "satisfactory...