Word: land
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sebastopol; and the bankruptcy of the empire. Committees were appointed to decide upon reforms and on February 16, 1861, the decree was promulgated. It provided that the peasants were to have all the rights of free cultivators; nobles were to give each peasant between twenty and thirty acres of land, and the government was to remunerate the nobles. The peasants were to repay the government by equal annual instalments for forty-nine years...
...Irrigation is of greatest value to the country. - (a) Large areas now worthless without it: Powell, 48. - (b) 120,000,000 acres reclaimable: Sec. Noble's Report 1891. - (c) Government no longer has any good agricultural land left. - (d) Irrigated land better for agriculture than common land. - (e) Irrigation has developed the country immensely. - (x) in India: Wilson 418-20. - (y) in Southern California and in New Mexico: Sec. Noble's Report...
...United States: Sec. Noble's Report, 1890, 641. - (a) It must be on a very large scale: Powell, 48. - (b) Return from the investment, although sure, is very slow at first: Wilson, 410-18. - (c) It has to wait for immigration to fill up the irrigated land: Wilson...
...modesty. How is it possible for any young man to see things in their true proportions, to feel that athletic prowess though a fine and praiseworthy thing, is by no means the first and most important thing in college life, when he may read in every newspaper in the land a detailed account of how Williams stubbed his toe, and when he knows there are thousands of people all over the United States anxiously waiting for news of Knipe's sprained ankle? I say it strikes me with admiring wonder to see how modestly you bear yourselves, and how little...
...Testament, which was wholly Asiatic. Between the book of Malachi, the last of the Old Testament series, and the birth of Christ, tour hundred years elapsed. These four centuries mark the transition period of the Jewish people from a simple, agricultural community to a powerful commercial people, whose land had been changed and improved under the influence of Roman civilization. If we are to understand the means by which the religion of Christ was spread abroad among the nations of the world, we must know the history of the transition period. This is contained in the books of the Apocrypha...