Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan was reported to be scourged and disgraced by post-War land exploitation and cheap building...
...seriously threatened. Then appeared the Appleton readers, prepared by the school superintendents of St. Louis and Cleveland with a Yale professor. It was a lavish series, handsomely illustrated. The McGuffey's survived this onslaught only by those sterling moral values which had made them a byword in the land, a staple commodity at every general store. That they have now vanished utterly from schoolrooms will be difficult to prove, especially since they owe their whole existence to what many claimed, at the time, was a miracle...
...plane forced them to death in the waters of the Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland. Several reputable citizens of Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, swore that they saw (others heard) a plane in the air at about the hour that the White Bird was due. But a thorough combing of land and sea in this district had not yet revealed even so much as a strut of the White Bird...
...Media, Pa., Bernard C. Black, 84, called "Old Man of the Chimney" because for many years he refused to budge from a burned-down, ramshackle ruin consisting chiefly of a chimney on a $100,000 tract of land owned by him, died, following an apoplectic stroke...
...completely violate the principles of correct grammar as "He don't" are to become permissible in good usage, purists and scholars may indeed mourn the loss of a great battle in their age long fight against popular ignorance and carelessness. And America, often belittled by foreigners as a land of little culture and less scholarship, will be quite defenceless against the jibes of its European detractors...