Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gayelord Hauser [TIME, Nov. 17] did not dream up the "organic" theory of gardening, which teaches that all animal and vegetable waste should be returned to the soil, in order to grow the most healthful and best-tasting produce. I am sure Mr. H. does not maintain that the carrot can tell the difference between decaying swifts and fertilizer from Swift...
...blank areas of Asian atlases. At home on Asia's plains, he often got lost in the jungle of closer-to-home politics. A fervent admirer of Hitler ("one of the greatest men in world history"), he declared in 1944 that "Germany was never a danger to British soil, and far less to American...
...faction, appointed by him to various jobs in the government or party. But not Vladimir Clementis, a deadly enemy. In 1949, Clementis was representing his country at the U.N. in New York when he heard the first rumblings from home that Slansky had the knife out. On U.S. soil, Clementis felt safe. But President Gottwald sent Clementis' wife to New York to reassure him that he could safely come home. Clementis returned to Prague, and then found that Gottwald could not or would not shield...
Somehow it seems that rampant regression characterizes simple-minded zealots, incapable of comprehending a blueprint and frankly afraid of it. These are people fearful that machines will make hands useless and brains even less necessary. To escape from possible superannuation, they return, at least symbolically, to soil and unquestioning faith. It is an alarming literary trend that pushes humanity back to the slime, but it can sometimes provide good theatre...
Raftery recognized the "islands" for what they were-man-made crannogs, piles of stone ferried from the mainland by men of the New Stone Age and Late Bronze Age. Covered with a lattice of logs, they made a sturdy foundation for the lake dwellers' homes. In the peaty soil that now covers the crannogs, Raftery and his assistant have uncovered 17 dugout canoes beautifully hollowed from the solid trunks of great oaks. They have also found shards of undecorated pottery, axheads, a dagger, a chisel and other tools. They have dug up bronze ornaments, fragments of a Bronze...