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Word: land (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...church, located at Riverside Drive and 122nd St., will cover approximately 22,500 square feet of land. Its nave, 100 feet wide, will run north and south parallel with the Hudson River. Its main entrance will be on Riverside Drive through a bell tower, 300 feet in height. The cost will be about $4,000,000. Its seating capacity will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fosdick Cornerstone | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...stranger came to him again and counseled him to go to sea. "You have tried hard and played the game but it does not seem to come through. The things of land were not made for you. . . . Leave the land where you have lost and try the sea where all men begin equal. And where a flowing breeze carries away all sadness and painful memories." So Dundee went to sea. And lost again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION,NON-FICTION: Juggler's Kiss | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...COMMAND TO LOVE?European diplomats giving all for the land they love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...these particular people in its destruction? Was it an accident or an intention? Author Wilder explores the lives of the five; each one had achieved in life, just before the falling of the Bridge of San Luis Rey, a kind of completion. So at the end, "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." The delicacies of Author Wilder's prose cannot be intimated in so rude a summary of the material of his book, which will be acceptable, like his first novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: San Luis | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...receives in the public press will do more than increase his plurality in the next Chicago election. Politics and publicity are synonymous, and the easiest way to attain the latter is by insulting the intelligentsia and amusing the thinking minority. Harrying the agents of George the Fifth from the land and smoking a brace of cigars simultaneously are only a passing indication of the range and color of his demagogical accomplishments. Along with "the World's Greatest Newspaper", another Chicago product. It is unbelievable that much of his yammering is lot of the tongue in the check variety Perhaps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELCOME HOME, BILL | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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