Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What is a sea elephant? President Coolidge knew all about the land elephant, which is the symbol of his political party: the largest of land animals, herbivorous, mammalian, ungulate, with a flexible proboscis, exaggerated incisors (tusks), rudimentary tail. But what is a sea elephant; mammal or fish? President Coolidge said he did not know and when John Ringling, who was in Washington with his circus, called at the White House and said his sea elephant weighed four tons. President Coolidge went to see for himself. Mrs. Coolidge, in summery white hat, suit and gloves, went too. They took seven-year...
...Today," wrote Brother Cleveland, "fraternity folk pretty much direct the affairs of the nation. The White House is 100 per cent. Greek letter, with President Coolidge flying the royal purple of Phi Gamma Delta and the First Lady of the Land wearing the arrow of Pi Beta Phi. Vice President Charles G. Dawes of Delta Upsilon guides the destiny of the U. S. Senate. Nicholas Longworth, of Zeta Psi, is in command of the House of Representatives...
Lieut. Hoppin, known as a careful pilot,* met a nasty-looking rain squall between Binghamton and Cortland, N. Y. He thought it best to land and selected a field on a stock farm. The field was knobbly. The ship bounced and turned a somersault. Mr. Sweet, having unbuckled his safety-belt, was pitched against the cockpit wall. A head blow killed him. Lieut. Hoppin, belted in his seat, was unbruised...
...plantation agreement signed by the Ford interests and the State of Para. The agreement, denounced as a "scandalous document," was declared to grant Mr. Ford "unlimited permission to engage in commerce, industry, banking, navigation, and the hiring of contract labor . . . unrestricted by government control" throughout a vast tract of land...
Militance & Independence. So early as 328 B. C. Alexander the Great marched victoriously over the chill Hindu Kush mountain passes of Afghanistan on his way to conquer in India; but it is a rule of modern history that no Occidental people can conquer and then hold the bleak land of the fanatically warlike Afghans. During the last century Great Britain repeatedly occupied the Afghan capital of Kabul and the town of Kahandar (see Map) but her troops were always withdrawn and invariably with heavy losses. True the Afghan casualties were likewise heavy, but Britons have not forgotten that during...