Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cruiser Jintsu, with a great gaping hole made by the Warabi, listed forward sharply and was towed in this precarious condition toward the Maizuru dockyards by the Kongo. The Ashi was also towed toward land by the Abukama. Neither cruiser lost any men. Total casualties were therefore 129 officers...
...rode a large group of skulking bandits with an eye to robbery and a will to violence. Madly they raced along with the swaying train, their horses' hoofs beating a drum rumble on the arid land. Half a hundred shots screamed through the air and clattered against the sides of the cars, some of them piercing the woodwork and windows. But all in vain; booty was denied them...
Bolivian and Paraguayan troops glared at each other last week over a little-known, nondescript strip of borderland. They glared the more ferociously because the soil was popularly supposed to contain valu- able oil deposits. The land itself is of no agricultural value, being subject to floods at certain seasons of the year; but, for oil and other reasons, it was in dispute between the two countries. Which side of the frontier should...
...decidedly graphic description. Gullible readers devoured it. Careful readers laughed, for it was a fact, published in newspapers throughout the land, that W. E. Playfair of the Associated Press was the only newspaperman permitted in the death house to view the execution...
...Flaherty, willing to comply with the customs of a strange land, gave the policeman 8% schillings, received a receipt, and then vented his feelings by throwing the receipt upon the pavement...