Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Build a new bowl within the miles of Boston in some naturally drained and topographically perfect piece of land where it can be supported by solid earth...
...should be near a railway and surrounded by plenty of automobile parking land...
...West Point Cadets will probably give up their custom of invading hostile college towns by land, when they come for the Army game and take to the high seas to move on Cambridge and the Stadium next October...
...chief love is the sea, but only in sailing ships. He hates steamers. "I love to fight the storm," he continued, "and I love my boat. I am going back to it in a few days; I'm not at home on land. Sailors are the greatest fraternity, and the sailors of wind-jammers are the aristocrats of the bunch. I've been six times around the world, and sailing men are the same all over...
Then in 1821 across the Sabine River came mild-mannered Stephen F. Austin of Missouri and his band of settlers "to redeem Texas from its wilderness state by means of the plow alone." Paradoxically, these people became loyal citizens of the Mexican Republic and ousted rebels from the land. But when Santa Anna, the Mexican general of the dark and cruel eyes, turned his guns on the Alamo (Roman Catholic mission at San Antonio), a different story began. Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett and 180 Texans refused for eleven days to be ousted from the Alamo...