Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clear the Lobbies." Added Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: "What we need now is a working base and not a beleaguered garrison . . . We have to adapt our minds more and more to the conception that countries, wherever they are, do not like to have foreign troops on their soil . . . More and more we shall have to base ourselves upon our own strategic reserve here and our ability to fly it to whatever quarter it is needed...
...teaching history solely as a narrative series of events, Miss Collier likes to concentrate on such current problems as conservation. Once she set her class to reclaiming a 32-acre plot of land just outside of town, got botany students to study its plants, chemists to examine its soil, geology and art students to make up maps, agricultural students to irrigate and plant, and commercial law students to draw up a five-year lease with the land's owners. Last year her class decided that the community needed a new branch public library, engaged in a hot campaign...
...World Court last week dropped from its docket a $637,894 suit filed by the U.S. against Hungary and the Soviet Union. The case involved an Air Force C-47 forced down on Hungarian soil by Communist fighter planes, and then confiscated. The sum requested included the $123,605 ransom the U.S. had to pay Hungary to free the plane's four-man crew...
...fields where golden wheat and rye shimmer at each passing breeze. Turning idly in the same soft breeze, the sails of windmills urge the sluggish water along a network of canals which are the province's vital arteries, moving its traffic, draining and feeding its rich black soil...
...water, probably by changes of sea level because of ice ages, to become full-fledged islands. Then furious tropical rain went to work on the porous coral, dissolving it. The center of the island eroded faster than the rim, particularly if it had picked up a layer of soil. Reason: the soil contributed acids that attacked the limestone...