Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...autos roll back from Maine and Michigan with carcasses slung over the fenders. The day before the Michigan season opened, an eight-mile line of autos waited to get on the ferry at the Straits of Mackinac, to head for such choice spots as Turtle Lake Twenty Acres Domain. The weather had been too mild for ideal hunting ; there was little tracking snow and the leaves were noisy. But there was so much venison on the hoof that a record 90,000 bucks had killed in Michigan by last week. In Maine, where hunting is a $4 million-a-year...
...word 'World Capital' is nothing but ambiguity . . . bloated with false deductions. . . . Confronting such a menace, the inhabitants of Connecticut, terror-stricken, took the bit between their teeth and flatly voted against the invasion of their domain. ... If the word 'Headquarters' brings to mind 'LIFE,' 'World Capital' brings to mind 'ACADEMISM.' And here we come to ... the very basis of the debate: ACADEMISM OR LIFE...
Lest upperclassmen in the three courses feel that the Union is strictly Freshman domain, John J. Gallen, supervisor of Boylston and the House libraries, said yesterday that he wished to make it clear that Freshman Dean Leighton and William Bradford, secretary of the Union, were freely granting all upperclassmen permission to use the Union as long as the emergency requires...
...enforcement of these same rules, on the basis of their status and age as upperclassmen. Now, the situation, though far from being reversed, is not comparable. Many hundreds of Freshmen, all veterans it is claimed, reside in the Houses. And in the Yard dormitories, once exclusively Freshman domain, are scores of upperclassmen. The parietal rules apply, not on the basis of men's understanding, capabilities, or trustworthiness, but on the location of their living quarters. In this changed era, the rules should be altered to meet a new condition...
...Eleven years ago Paraguay outpointed Bolivia in South America's last war, over the Chaco. Paraguayans still allot almost half their budget to the military, supply Buenos Aires with its toughest cops, ablest soccer players, and remain convinced that, should they choose to extend their ancient, river-bound domain (see map), they could do so in any direction...