Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present session including $2,353,747 for U. S. Marines in Nicaragua; $50,000,000 to carry out the Alien Property Act; $6,235,000 for purchase of the Cape Cod canal; $5,000,000 for District of Columbia realty; $17,513,500 for Federal buildings throughout the land. The Bill went to the Senate. It brought the public moneys voted this session to a total of 3.3 billions exclusive of 1.38 billions in permanent appropriations. Total appropriations were 4.1 billions last year. Of the half-billion increase this year some 201 millions were in the first deficiency bill, which...
...such times his Russian wife would sit still, puzzled by this talk of fights far away in a land that she did not know. The Russians said they would bury some of his assets in the Kremlin wall. . . . Clarence Darrow said: "I'm glad to hear he is dead ... He was unhappy...
...here in loyal commemoration Nobile dropped a symbol of St. Mark upon the ice. Low over the ice flew the Italia, through a dense fog, into a head wind, its speed cut to 40 miles, ice forming on its sides. Gradually the air cleared, visibility improved. Lenin Land, discovered by the Russians 15 years ago, was the next objective. General Nobile hoped to land a scientific party on Lenin Land but so thick was the falling snow, so menacing the cold and dreary waste, that after hunting in vain for a sight of the land, the project was abandoned...
...believed to have originated in Asia because Asia is the oldest continuously dry land in the world; because climate and topography were ideal there for the development of the dawnman; because the glacial ice ages of Europe missed this area. Westward and eastward from Gobi probably traveled those hairy primates whose descendants are now called Smith, Karpetsky, Hop Lee, Seraphino...
...neither for legislative coherence nor executive efficiency is a commonplace with any student of government. That it further hampers President and Cabinet members to a point which makes men of the highest ability chafe in either of these positions, and that it reduces the supreme legislative bodies of the land to groups of discontented and irresponsible obstructionists are indictments of too much verity to be lightly pushed aside...