Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favorite comedians, to be presented. President Coolidge told her he hoped she was enjoying Washington. Her mother, Mrs. Lillian Grey, was with her. They were introduced by William Spry, English-born Mormon, onetime (1909-13, 13-17) Governor of Utah, now (since 1921) Commissioner of the General Land Office. When picture agencies distributed photographs of this party of callers, one caption read: "William Spry is forced to live up to his name...
...Detroit River offered a situation during the past summer that was considered desperate. By additions to the land and the water forces, however, we have checked almost completely the smuggling activities of bootleggers. And what is true here is true also of the country at large...
Quickly the news spread throughout the land-a land that had barely recovered from the shock of the ghastly murder of three members of the Arnaud family only three weeks before. A radio message carried the news to M. Theodore Steeg, returning from Marseilles to the Residency at Rabat. "Do the impossible to obtain the release of the four prisoners," wirelessed back the Resident General...
...aviators flying in difficulty. The aviator presses a button which releases compressed air which blows him from his plane. Clear of the plane, the aviator presses another button, which releases another can of compressed gas, which inflates his suit. By spreading his arms he can float to land...
...which is responsible for the Sportsmen's Bay in the Cathedral. I feel that the Sportsmen's Bay is one of the most significant and interesting things in the Cathedral. It surely is a very great thing to have in the greatest house of worship in our land that magnificent and conspicuous symbol of the relationship of clean and wholesome sport in all its forms to life and to religion." Sports represented in the Sportsmen...