Word: acree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church has an office (in Manhattan) but no diocese-and no official house to live in. To remedy this situation the church this week announced that it had taken an option on a 98-acre, 18-building estate in Greenwich, Conn.
Erskine Caldwell, ribald explorer into the itchy side of the South, was enjoying a crashing success in Denver with his 14-year-old God's Little Acre. The pocket edition (25?) was fetching $5 on the black market, and bookstores were sold out of the regular edition. Responsible for...
Far from the Boiling Pot. While all these potential rewards and troubles boiled furiously, Bob Young spent most of last week in the piny woods of northern Florida, expertly banging away at quail. He was the guest of Mrs. George F. Baker Jr. on her 13,000-acre Horseshoe Plantation...
"Our population is destined to roll its resistless waves to the icy barriers of the north," said William Henry Seward 101 years ago. Twenty-one years later, he bought one of the Arctic marches-Alaska -for less than 2? an acre. He would have bought Canada and Greenland if he...
One Palestinian digger is bearded Dominican Father Roland de Vaux (described by a colleague as "rather a dandy for a Dominican"). At Tell el-Farah, near Nablus in central Palestine, he found a likely spot, staked out a 40-acre claim. On the surface were iron age remains, rather recent...