Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stubble and curling the corn leaves. But this is no normal year. June was the wettest month in Kansas weather records (since 1886), and the rain continued into July. When torrential rains poured down last week, there was nothing for the water to do but run off the saturated soil. It ran with a fury never before seen in Kansas...
...fields will take a sizable area of arable soil, and French politicians, their eyes on the farm vote, are reluctant to do anything about getting the necessary land. The first U.S. air reinforcements, the 116th Fighter Bomber Wing, due to land in France by July, will probably find no bases available there, may have to go to Britain instead where construction of new fields, able to handle jets, is well under...
Peng: Another thing. There are despots in the markets, among fishmongers, real-estate brokers, water carriers, and night soil scavengers. How shall we cope with these feudal remnants...
...expedition visited was a narrow valley near the Iranian border. Surrounded by deserts and now a barren wasteland itself, the valley must have been a lake bed in some remote period. Later it must have been thickly inhabited. A great wind that rages through the valley has blown the soil away, uncovering town sites, cemeteries and heaps of pottery fragments which now lie exposed on the desert. There the expedition found tools of copper, but there was no evidence that any people had lived in the valley since prehistoric times...
...From the first foundation to the present, four main streams have watered the soil on which the Universities have flourished. These ultimate sources of strength are:... the cultivation of learning for its own sake;...the general educational stream of the liberal arts;...the educational stream that makes possible the professions; and the never falling river of student life... The cultivation of learning alone produces not a university but a research institute. The sole concern with the student life produces an academic country club or merely a football team maneouvering under a collegiate banner. The future of the university tradition...