Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army hospitals across the U.S. last week were 7,000 or more men who had been gravely wounded in Korea. Only five years ago, many of them would have been lying under some far-away soil, with only a wooden marker to show that they had lost the last battle. Now, thanks to improvements in the art of medicine-and especially in the logistics of military medicine-nearly all would live. The death rate among the wounded in Korea, said Dr. Richard L. Meiling, the Department of Defense director of Medical Services, was the lowest in the nation...
...pound? Eggs, butter, meat? . . . There is literally nothing in our grocery store at home that Mrs. Fairless can buy for as little as 3½? a pound ... If you lived among the cliff dwellers of New York City, and if you wanted a little potting soil to put around your geranium plants on your window sill, you could buy it at your neighborhood seed store for 7? a pound . . . Steel is literally cheaper than dirt...
Langstroth took a Harvard course in Soil Mechanics in 1938 under Arthur Casagrande, Gordon McKay Professor of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering...
...clear that she had lost a great deal. She had aroused the U.S. to an awareness of its weaknesses and a determination to build up strength. Russia had enabled the U.S. to prove to the whole world that it would shed the blood of its men on foreign soil to defend an ally. Russia had aroused the U.N.-to which its representative had made a degraded and fruitless return after seven months of boycott-to a consciousness of new power and prestige. Russia had showed herself to the troubled peoples of Asia and to all the Red satellites of Europe...
...patience-an exasperation which has made his relations with the academic world both stimulating and stormy. He quit after two years. His grandfather bought him a farm in Deny, N.H. and turned him loose. For twelve years, while Elinor bore children,-Frost raised chickens, taught school, battled the grudging soil, fought back encroaching witch grass and sheep laurel. Working long after the children were in bed and the chores done, he slowly wrung out a lean, spare and personal idiom...