Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board, your efforts will got a two-way boost. National, local, and College affairs are in its domain, and here also are the men who can tell pomposity from pizzazz at distances up to a mile...
Last spring, the Cambridge City Council threatened to seize the Botanical Garden site by right of eminent domain unless the University built a housing development as the city had suggested several years before. At that time, University officials first announced definitely that plans would be drawn up in the near future for such a development...
...first time in his narrow life looked at a map of the world. He studied it, as he later recalled, with great interest. Last week, the farm lad was redrawing that map with an iron pen dipped in blood. Mao Tse-tung was adding China to the domain of world Communism...
...Little Baseball. During the first year, the Navy assigned another officer to help him. Later, he began hiring officers' wives. One by one, he took over abandoned Quonset huts for schools, built others in the more remote villages. Finally, his domain spread over 750,000 square miles of Pacific. His biggest school: the intermediate, with more than 250 students, six Quonset classrooms, dormitories, and a baseball team...
From his headquarters at Edmonton, the commanding officer of the North West Air Command looks out and up into a vast aerial kingdom. His domain stretches 2,000 miles from Lake of the Woods to the Pacific, and 2,000 miles from the 49th Parallel to the polar seas. Prairie flying schools trained 131,553 flyers for World War II. Through North West's staging fields pass B-29s, shuttling between the U.S. and Alaska (half of the Edmonton field is set aside for Americans...