Word: land
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Carlyle," said Mr. Hale the other evening, in his address on the "Choice of a Profession," "Carlyle led the young men of his day out into a wilderness, and there he left them, because he himself did not know on which side lay the Promised Land...
...reported extradition of Sheridan causes a sensation in the Land League. The Irish members of Parliament declare that he can upset Carey's testimony...
...some opposition to the support of a lacrosse team, such a team has been kept up to win." The "opposition" thus mentioned was such as an article in the Advocate of October 21, 1881, shows: The writer, after discussing the rights of the lacrosse team to use the land granted it by President Eliot, and stating that the "game was of very little importance to the university," goes on to say that since it interfered with tennis, "it has been almost an unmitigated nuisance." This is the first clear indication of the growing power of lacrosse, since the Advocate thought...
...land of idleness and ease...
That ope the gate to Poet's Land...