Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Menuhin, senior, settled in Palestine when a young man. His name at that time was not Menuhin. He adopted this Hebrew name to signify the peacefulness which his sensitive spirit found in the land of his forefathers, Palestine. His wife was a native Palestinian Jewish girl. They married, emigrated to the U. S. and made their home in San Francisco...
...mortgage was being foreclosed on a broken-down Indiana onion farm which President Coolidge was given "for an unrendered service to agriculture." There were bills to be signed-$6,792,000 for Army Housing, $125,000,000 for new Federal buildings throughout the land. People were already agitating about the next "Summer White House" and suggesting places as exotic as Hollywood, Calif., despite the President's known feeling that he should stay near Washington this summer. There was also the Jardines' dinner, which President Coolidge had to attend alone, Mrs. Coolidge not feeling well enough, after her cold...
...Calabria was "the Land of the Sybarites," citizens who inhabited the metropolis of Sibaris and were accused by the conquering Romans of sleeping upon rose leaves. Today its stupid people toil in almost feudal servitude upon lands chiefly owned by the Italian nobility. Murders are almost twice as common as in Sicily and thefts more frequent than in Sardinia...
...within the recollection of man. If so, our aqueduct across the San Andreas rift would have long since been destroyed. Even the San Francisco earthquake movement did not faze it. If such movements had occurred they would have been reflected in the astronomic computations from Mt. Wilson, in our land surveys, or by dis placements along our many highways and railways which cross fault lines...
Wheat jumped from 2¾ to 3⅛ a bushel in Chicago's Pit last week on rumor that Russia, wheat exporting land, had bought 8,000,000 bushels cash grain in a few days and was in the market for more. An international grain house of the first magnitude refused to be quoted by name in its comment...