Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waking uncertainly from thick sleep, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh groped in the foggy Venezuelan morning. He twitched the Spirit of St. Louis upwards and sideways, seeking an opening in the mists and mountain peaks. He found a rift and streaked out over the Caribbean. For 100 miles seeing no land the flyer contemplated the two tinges of blue sky and bluer sea. Once he dipped to scoot cheerily close to the steamer Amsterdam. Once he scuttled through a sudden rain squall. Land notched the horizon far ahead. From there he flew over nearly nine hundred miles of "Islands...
...temporal authority could be harmlessly satisfied by the recognition of a "Papal State" whose territories would include the Vatican properties and one or two remote hill towns. An alternative proposal was that all Roman Catholic churches in Italy should be given status as Papal State territory, thus dotting the land with innumerable but innocuously minute territorial islands. Although Il Duce's assent was never indicated in the case of the latter scheme, he was reputedly withheld from agreeing to the former only by the most persistent objections of the Fascist Grand Council, the one body in Italy which...
Texas, of course, was once a republic in itself, a land where tradition makes bloody Alamo a Bunker Hill and Sam Houston a George Washington. It is now the largest state in the Union, the seat of the Democratic National Convention (at Houston). Bunker's Monthly, however, is no passing boom sheet, no harp twanging the glories of yesteryear. It is substantial in size, pleasing in appearance, broad in editorial content. New Yorkers and Californians can read it with profit...
...gray: his shoes black. His shirt will be white; his collar soft. His tie will be of a rich cream color. Thus clad he will appear as a figure infinitely more unique than any ordinary individual, for he is in the position of a stranger in his own land...
...this happy land...