Word: inland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...membership on the Federal Farm Loan Board (1916) and head of the Far East Red Cross Commission (1920). Besides his fiction, Mr. Quick has written much of a practical nature?on agricultural problems (The Real Trouble With the Farmer), on rural education (The Brown Mouse}, on American inland waterways...
...This being the case, as regards this matter I feel that the British Government need not mind greatly what is said. But in order that you gentlemen who live near the seashore may not think it necessary for the safety of your families to purchase far inland, because perfidious Albion is secretly breaking her engagements and arming contrary to treaty obligations, I will just say this in order to calm any fears you may entertain on the subject...
...While inland China was wrapt in its customary slumber, the coast provinces, from Kwangtung to Chihli, effervesced in a variety of bubbles...
...warning went unheeded, his bicycle was stolen, his ship left without him, his girl was kidnapped. Searching for a short cut to town, he wandered into a swamp, was bitten by a deadly stingray; into a smugglers' camp, was befriended ; into a native train guard, was jailed, far inland. He escaped from jail, hatless, bootless, penniless; cleaned up a barroom with his good right fist (the jacket design), set out to walk to Los Agostino, 110 miles away across the Sierras, to get news of his ship, of his lady. Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness. Over...
...curiosity of inland folk to see the navy is natural enough. Up to a short while ago, it was customary to keep the navy near the water. If tars became landlubbers for a day in order to show the army its place in football, the contest was held near the seaboard in some such town as New York, Philadelphia, or Baltimore. Never have they made an inland excursion. Only of late, since the navy has taken to flying about over the country, have Westerners made bold to ask it for a football game...