Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fertility Rites held at 8:26 a. m. yesterday, the sacred ceremony of consecrating the soil with bull's blood was performed to the solemn notes of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard," played by the Harvard Band. High Medicine Man Thomas A. Lehrer 4G was chanting "Hail Gropius, unorthodox, we hail thee at the vernal equinox," in front of the World Tree. Others were absorbed in contemplation...
...first time in history that the U.S. had started returning its war dead to home soil while a war was still going on. Eventually the Army expects to send home all of the nation's Korean war dead...
Scattered for miles around the crater are fragments of meteoric material. The soil itself, in spots, is full of microscopic droplets of nickel-iron (many thousands of them in each cubic foot). The fragments differ in chemical composition; some have melted, vaporized or been altered by heat. By studying such clues for more than ten years, Nininger has reconstructed what the "cosmo-terrestrial encounter" was like...
...confident about the Main Line as Investor Cobden had been in the Panic of 1857. "That the stock will go up again ... I have no doubt," wrote Cobden to a friend. "Nothing but an earthquake or some other convulsion of nature can impair the value ... of the richest soil of the world...
...once conquered Asia into the construction of more & more intricate prayer wheels. He describes without flurry Mongol butchering (directions: cut a hole in the animal's side, pull out the heart, squeeze it until animal is dead), and admires the tricks which Mongol farmers play on their reluctant soil to make it yield. Yet in a land where there is barely enough to eat, an undernourished girl may have silver rings in her ears. Cammann condenses his impressions of Inner Mongolia into a phrase: "Wealth in squalor...