Word: soils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President told the First International Congress of Soil Science that all mankind is dependent upon the soil and hoped that the Congress would be abundantly fruitful in illumination and inspiration to all who attended...
Previous to its departure for England the University tennis team will engage in two more contests on American-soil. On June 27 it will enter the Intercollegiates on the Merion Cricket Club courts in Haverford, Pa., and two days before this the Crimson netmen will oppose the Seabright players at Seabright, N. J. Only four men are allowed to enter the Intercollegiates from each college so that the whole Harvard team will not make the trip to Haverford. J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, L. H. Gordon '27, and B. H. Whitbeck '29 have already been picked while the choice...
...arose at 6:30 a. m., worked on his own plane Spirit of St. Louis, at Le Bourget airport. Then he left the soil of France, circled the Eiffel Tower twice, flew low over the Arc de Triomphe, dropped a farewell message on the Place de la Concorde. It read: "Goodbye, dear Paris. Ten thousand thanks for your kindness...
...certain time be able to mobilize 5,000,000 men. We must be able to arm them. We must fortify our navy and make our air force so strong and numerous that its roaring motors will drown all other sounds, its shadow hide the sun over Italian soil. We will be able then, between 1935 and 1940, when I believe there will be a crucial point in European history, finally to make our voice heard and see our rights recognized...
Author Hamsun wrote the tale before he had reached the stature that put a Nobel Prize (1920) in his grasp for Growth of the Soil. He had, however, the same instinct for completeness, totality; the same slow scrutiny which, if you wait long enough, turns out to the vast drollery of a cosmic unbeliever...