Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strangely enough, although M. Bratiano heads an intensely militant oligarchy of land owners and industrialists-although he dominates the police and the army-there was a possibility that he might resign, or at least so reorganize his cabinet as to give the peasants a voice in the government, which they have not had for decades...
...Taves on Land Value," Professor Bur bank, Harvard...
...many times she wandered off into Arabia on a quest for pure joy. "Can you picture," she cries, "the singular beauty of these moonlight departures! The frail Arab tents falling one by one . . . dark masses of the kneeling camels . . . shrouded figures . . ." These things lured Gertrude Bell into desert lands and kept her prowling there, writing books on archeology, writing others on the land & people which British officers later conned furiously as they set sail to fight the Near Eastern campaigns of the World...
Vincent Vigoroux, 15, youngest editor and publisher in the U. S., whose paper is The Little Acorn of New Rochelle, N. Y., and 1,150 editors of high school papers throughout the land, attended the annual convention of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in Manhattan last week, saw how linotype machines were made, visited plants of New York City newspapers, heard President Karl August Bickel of the United Press say: "The day of the hardboiled, cynical reporter with a bottle of whiskey in one pocket, and an American Mercury in the other, has passed. Ideals are higher now. . . . This condition...
...Story. Land trembled and sank, winds roared, and the waters rose. India was no more, China a forgotten dream, Southern Europe gone, Germany a desolation below the sea, England too-but for a bit of midlands which persisted as a group of islands. Some few inhabitants had not fled mistakenly North: Martin, separated by the floods from wife and children; Claire, "like a valkyrie"; and a handful of miners, laborers, vagabonds, with too few women to go 'round...