Word: virgin
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...burly shoulders of Khrushchev rests responsibility for a great gamble of men and machines that the Kremlin calls "development of virgin soil and wasteland." Since February, tens of thousands, mostly young Russians and Ukrainians-many of them never before close to a farm-plus hundreds of the best Soviet agricultural engineers and scientists, have been dragooned into a great eastward migration to convert 32 million acres of untilled land into a new Communist breadbasket as great as the Ukraine. Big percentages of Russia's farm-machinery output (e.g., 120,000 tractors this year, just about all that Russia...
Khrushchev decreed the trek of the young "pioneers" to the unfarmed lands of Kazakhstan. "The Soviet people," said Nikita Khrushchev, "will undoubtedly provide the necessary number of workers for the reclamation of waste and virgin land. Everybody realizes that this is an all-peoples' cause...
These doubting Thomases among the wiseacre theologians - do they actually lack the faith to believe the inspired Word of God as given in the Biblical account of the virgin birth of Christ? - even in this day of artificial insemination? Or is their attitude more akin to that of Pilate, who, for fear of the people (public opinion), acquiesced in the crucifixion of Christ? To deliberately fail to affirm the virgin birth is to deny that Jesus...
Singer believes that the Mouse will stay up long enough to send back a wealth of information. It can analyze virgin sunlight that has not been altered by passing through the atmosphere. It can measure the earth's magnetic field, catch cosmic rays and observe the particles shot from the sun that cause the aurora...
Missionaries & Prime Ministers. With its long line of missionaries, the university has had an international influence greater than any of its rivals. It has students from the Virgin Islands, British Guiana, Kenya, Nigeria, the Gold Coast, the French Cameroons and Liberia, as well as from 22 states in the U.S. Of all its alumni, perhaps the two most notable are Africans: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nationalist leader of Nigeria, and Kwame Nkrumah. Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953). Many of Lincoln's students have returned to their homelands with a better understanding of the great progress made...