Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep them from being choked by wild grass, Stahmann built up a flock of 25,000 geese and found that they cleaned out the weeds just as well as Mexican hoe hands, who were hard to hire. Not only did the geese find their own food and enrich the soil with fertilizer, but when the cotton crop was harvested they could be sold. But they were not popular. Reason: high price...
...editorial statement, the Review prescribes the lines of the symposium. The editors cite the tradition of the intellectual's rejection of America the expatriates who felt with Henry James that "the soil of American perception is a poor, little, barren, artificial deposit" and those who remained at home to rail against the "booboisic" and capitalist reaction. All this has changed, however, the editors declare. "The American artist and intellectual no longer feels 'disinherited' . . . most writers . . . want to be very much a part of American life." Essential to this change, the Review decides, is the recognition of America as the defender...
...most dust. Governor after governor struggled to bring the vast new territory into a lawful state; each arrived with a new broom under his arm and left trailing it behind him. Australia's yellow press and its best and gayest ballads flourished in the sort of soil that gave Jesse James...
Polo & Palestine. The dragon-tooth soil of Northern Ireland has farrowed a fine litter of Britain's great generals-Montgomery, Alexander, Dill, Alanbrooke, Auchinleck. It also farrowed Gerald Templer, a thin, deceptively fragile-looking, tough soldier. His father, a dedicated officer in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, had some discussion with his mother about what to call the child, but there was no discussion about his career: it was Wellington, Sandhurst, and the army. Says his mother, now in her 80s : "He always wanted to be a soldier, and I did my best to make...
...remote east, ranchers graze their gaunt herds in a jungle reputed to be floating on oil. The Bolivian land itself is split in two-the barren, windswept uplands, fenced about by the snowy Andes; and the vast, green east, an unpopulated, trackless region of plains and jungle whose rich soil could easily feed all Bolivia if the mountain Indians would only move there...