Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forest. Pedestrians and cyclists on the road did not pause or hold their ground as the pattering squealing rats approached. Frightened they retreated into neighboring fields and circumstancially related afterwards that the rats were led by an immense bull-rodent-his eyes (aa^ording to one gifted witness) "rea land glaring." While dogs bayed, horses bolted whinnying, and even motor cars were turned around for flight, the rats scurried on-turning the road into an undulant brown snake. At last the snake reached Epping Forest, slithered in, dissolved into rat-families which fought and clawed each other for the better...
...exotic name, most teem with lucious promise. Even the grossest of non-gourmets might read on after encountering the book's first sentence: "In America the name of garlic is in bad odor." To which the author adds: "This conception is a libel upon garlic and upon the land of garlic eaters...
...Atlanta, Georgia and Georgia Tech plunged into a mighty mud pie, fishing for the Southern Conference championship. The only undefeated major eleven in the land, Georgia (who had despatched Yale) was an easy winner in the prophecies. But forward passes, one thrown, one intercepted, punctured prophecies. Tech sloshed across the muddy goal line twice, score 12-0, took the title...
...fabulous days of the first crusade (1096-99) there came into being the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. The purpose of this order was to succor crusaders and pilgrims into the Holy Land. Through the centuries the organization has been preserved, changing its name in 1310 to the Knights of Rhodes, in 1530 to the Knights of Malta; never changing its purpose- the performance of acts of mercy. It is the most ancient of such organ- izations in the Catholic Church...
Freshmen in Berkeley Oval yesterday leaned far out of crowded windows, watched with interest Latin Instructor G. M. Harper boot a football with classic toe, followed its course with eager eyes, saw the ball land amid flying glass upon an electric light globe, noted the miscreant flee before the arrival of a campus...