Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roamed the streets all night, fear wrapping cold fingers about my brow and the cold sweat on my heart. But with morning came relief. At that time I remembered suddenly, they were filling in the last of the made land in the Back Bay. I got a special interview with the Mayor, and he ordered a fleet of dump carts to leave for Cambridge, with me as pilot...
...Yucatan Indians comprising the shipment were, and still are, dead, buried, and mummified. They were bound for the University Museum from their native land, to be set up as curiosities and gazed at by people who have never been mummified...
When recompleted, Sculptor Baker's enormous woman will be stationed on top of an elevation in the Cherokee Strip, once the last public land in the U. S. Around her will lie a park whose total cost, including the woman herself, will...
...Land Banks. There are about 50 joint stock land banks in the U. S. They have loaned out, chiefly for long terms, more than $600,000,000 during the last ten years. Last week one of the most important ones, the New York Joint Stock Land Bank, became more important by purchasing another important one, the New Jersey Joint Stock Land Bank of Newark. The New York bank in its turn is controlled by bankers from Cleveland, who also control the Ohio-Pennsylvania Joint Stock Land Bank. Notable among the Cleveland men are Parmely W. Herrick (son of Ambassador Myron...
...hundred miles from the North Pole Noo Ping Wa, who went to the Pole with Perry, is planning to write a letter. He will have all the months of Arctic darkness to complete the task on his little table in the Canadian Mounted Police station, Ellesmere Land. The August mail boat will bring his reply to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's Christmas wireless...