Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Montana, the Columbine carried Ike to Walla Walla, where searchlights glared at the President as he stepped down from the plane onto politically apathetic soil. Since Washington elects neither governor nor Senator this year, the state's interest, such as it is, centers on the seven House contests: Democrats are given a fighting chance to pick up one of the six Republican seats...
...Massachusetts Agricultural College, as it was then called, earned an excellent reputation in the early part of the century in the field of soil study, but as time went on it became less and less agriculturally pre-occupied. The Legislature recognized this in 1931 by changing the school's official name to Massachusetts State College, and in 1947 recognized its further growth and diversification by making it finally the University of Massachusetts...
These facilities are, incidentally, quite outstanding. They include laboratories and experimental equipment for soil study, animal husbandry, slaughtering, breeding, etc., and feature a particularly renowned department of food technology. Scholars come from all over the world to study this subject at the University of Massachusetts...
Factional Peacemaker. Setting foot on New Jersey soil, Joe Martin stepped squarely into the middle of a fratricidal party brawl over the senatorial candidacy of liberal-minded Republican Clifford Case. No man was better suited than Martin to play the part of factional peacemaker. To Case backers, Martin appeared as President Eisenhower's loyal congressional leader. To Case's right-wing enemies, Martin was as close to a conservative "Mr. Republican" as anybody since Bob Taft. He carried the same message to the politicians who chewed cigars in the back seat of his campaign limousine...
...told me to tell you He is sending His Son back to earth ... He has already arrived. He is on American soil...