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Word: soils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credentials, got in return a new passport, which will expire Jan. 28. In an outraged huff, Clark announced that he would soon sail to the U.S. from France, pay his own way home. He said he would hold his explosion "until I put my feet on free American soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...same time, German students were reading this: "The voice of the [German] people demanded the return of Alsace-Lorraine. After all, it was German soil bound together by centuries of German history and culture . . . Now, Bismarck took this German soil back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Everyman's History | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

These seeds of fear and distrust fell on fertile soil. For Massachusetts was just emerging from a period of extreme anxiety. Only a few years before, in the last years of England's ill-fated James II, the colony had lost its precious charter and had felt the weight of royal autocracy under the governorship of Sir Edmund Andros. Even as the witch craze began, Massachusetts representatives were at the court of the new King, seeking a new charter. And the memory of King Phillip's War, with its horrors of Indian savagery, was still fresh in many New England...

Author: By Daniel A. Rezneck, | Title: Harvard President Plays Hero Role in Witchcraft Trials | 12/12/1953 | See Source »

Tickets for tonight's hockey game may be purchased at a special student rate in the HAA office under the Union. Regular second, balcony unreserved seats soil for $90, and $2 reserved seats for $1. A bursar's card is required...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Top-Ranked Boston College Meets Hockey Team Tonight | 12/11/1953 | See Source »

...soccer squad, Olympic champions, came to England with a record of 25 international games without a defeat. The British, celebrating the goth anniversary of a game they had exported all over the world, also had quite a record: no invading team had ever won an international match on English soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Twilight of the Gods | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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