Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known only as "Alumnus Aquaticus" is the first definite step toward an immediate start on the construction of a swimming pool primarily for undergraduates, it was announced yesterday by the H. A. A. Tentative plans call for the erection of a large indoor athletic plant with full equipment on land available between Winthrop, Holyoke, and Dunster Streets, and await additional funds for their execution...
...another party, and operate it on a fifty-fifty basis, in order to have someone who could keep the course up during the winter and summer months, when the University would have little use of it. The other is to have someone make a gift of a tract of land large enough to construct a course on; then the University could probably build...
Shifting his gaze out of the window and to politics, the Mayor turned his guns on the people of the land. "We've been too narrow in lots of our views. We don't care what a fellow is as long as he pays his bills, no matter what church he goes to. Country's too big for bigotry. I'm gonna run for something else if I don't get hit down before...
...classifications, seven times as many as there were a century ago. Mrs. MacFadden devotes her book largely to tabulations and statistics, which are in themselves very eloquent, and devotes very few of her 300 pages to argument or appeal. She believes that churches should pay taxes upon all land and buildings not used as places of worship, and that colleges should pay taxes upon their real estate, especially upon dormitories used for the housing of students, many of whom come from outside the state. For example, 90 per cent of the students at the Harvard business school are from outside...
...forecastle of a square-rigger, the rotten pea soup and greasy pork, and the honors of serving under a "Blue Nose," who tied a boy to the mizzen fife for the whole of the time his ship was beating round the Horn. And not only at sea, but on land is the sailor's life vividly described in his dirty lodgings and carnal relations in a house of rather poor repute...