Word: soils
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sugar industry is highly desirable - (a) Will not be sectional: Cong. Rec. 1889-90. p. 892. - (b) Will be a new industry. - (c) Beets are a good crop for soil; Defender, Apr. 21st, '90. p. 9. - (d) It creates new and large demand for labor, both agricultural and mechanical: Amer. Ec., Sept...
...Discouragement of Horace Tennant," Mr. Cohen can truthfully be said to have turned his literary shovel to virgin soil, although what he has unearthed is of rather a peculiar nature. After a careful perusal, we should call it a sketch with most (but not all) of the characteristics of a story; a sketch, in which there are delineations of three distinct characters,- one Horace Tennant, a Harvard graduate, cultivated and cynical, the well-springs of whose enthusiasm are not, however, entirely dried up, returning to his Texas home after an absence of four years-secondly, a Texas girl, plump...
...Higginson is unsurpassed alike in generosity and in the direct benefit it will bestow upon athletics. Through his munificence the problem of accommodation for athletic sports has been satisfactorily solved. Harvard is to have a magnificent field, as large as all the grounds now in use. The soil of the new field is better than that of Norton's Field, and can be made ready for use with little difficulty. As soon as that is put into shape, work will be begun upon the adjacent swamp land belonging to the college, and this will be gradually reclaimed, until...
...Pope and Italy" is Gail Hamilton's contribution. She starts out with the assertion that two sovereigns contend upon her soil for dominion, although the poor Pope's contention can now scarcely be called by that name. King Humbert she calls "gracious," the Pope "beautiful...