Word: land
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Land. Arch...
...officers with greater concentration of powers and responsibilities and the abolition of checks of all kinds that only make for inefficiency, this must be our aim. We have today many economic problems, of immigration, of mal-employment--even more insidious than unemployment--even more insidious than unemployment--and of land tenure. They may be cured by proper use of governmental power. The Reformation was a doing away with religious machinery which prevented man's reaching God. The political reform of today is the doing away with bosses which keep the people from running their government. The hope of democracy lies...
...Townsend has written an intensely moving tragedy in "Alaric Jourdan's House". All the monotonous majesty of the land of the St. Lawrence is felt in the situation involving three tellingly drawn characters, and the play moves with almost classic poise to an inevitable denouement of great power...
...been actively interested in carrying out this plan for bringing about wider mingling and closer acquaintance among the men of the University early in their college careers. The plan, which has received wide notice among Harvard men, provides for a row of buildings near the Charles River on the land now owned by the University, in which all first year men, except those living at home, will be required to live. At least one of these dormitories will be built next year, and the construction of the others will follow as soon as sufficient money is provided...
Detective Burns was for many years a member of the United States Secret Service, and in this capacity he secured the evidence which convicted a large and powerful gang of counterfeiters. While employed by the government, he also discovered the land frauds in the Department of the Interior...