Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey's Rutgers University, amid test tubes and agar dishes in which he is trying to extract still more antibiotics from soil molds, Waksman said: "I feel proud in justifying the ancient saying - I forget where it comes from - 'And from the earth shall come thy salvation...
Described, not unkindly, as "a Bolivian concept of a Swiss federation adapted to an African absolute monarchy," the partnership of Ethiopia and Eritrea should have practical advantages. Landlocked Ethiopia has the resources of soil and climate to become East Africa's breadbasket. Eritrea has better-trained labor and coastal ports on the Red Sea. The federation's success, said departing Commissioner Anze Matienzo pointedly, depends on Ethiopia's "respect for Eritrea's constitutional progress and autonomy...
...civilian, and as a soldier I can't emphasize it too much." For hundreds of Houston parents, Reed came to typify their own servicemen sons; they flooded him with pies, cakes, homemade candy, books. When he wrote wistfully that he wished he had "a teaspoonful of Texas soil to put under my pillow at night," he got nearly a truckload, packed in small envelopes. But when Reed was home on a furlough, City Editor Johnston diplomatically asked him when he thought he might be going overseas...
...greatest political force in Egypt with a wide following among the people, to whom it promised independence from Britain and a better life. But over the years it grew deeply corrupt. Nahas himself was once a respected leader. The son of fellaheen, he came from Egypt's soil. He was a devoted servant of the people, and he lived simply even after he became Premier. Then in 1936 he took as his wife the lovely, ambitious daughter of a landowner. Her name was Zeinab, but Nahas called her "Zeezee." She called him "Safsaf...
Frank I. Goodman '54, H.L.U. vice-president, said he will lead the Lodge supporters at the meeting. "Lodge has shown himself a man of stature and independence," Goodman said. "The best thing we can do for American liberalism is to leave it growing room in Republican soil...