Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Children do more to determine the length of popularity of a piece of music than does any other factor," said Wendall Hall, composer of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", "Underneath the Mellow Moon". "Land of my Sunset Dreams", and other popular musical selections, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
Near Stops Landing, Miss., thousands of workers were piling sandbags on a tottering levee. The embankment gave way, many of its defenders were drowned as they scrambled toward higher land beyond. The collapse of the Stops Landing levee forced the abandonment of the town of Greenville, Miss., whose population of 15,000 had been increased by the arrival of 10,000 refugees. Hordes of Negroes clustered on the Greenville levee, 25 feet wide and three miles long. Steamers brought them tents, taking white people from the town hotels and taller houses...
...shirt being flapped from a hole in the roof of a cotton gin. Daily for ten days the plane returned, "bombing" the hole accurately with supplies which saved the refugee's lives. ... A corps of flyers bravely patrolled a 400-mile stretch south of Memphis, in land planes. If forced down certain drowning awaited them. No respecter of greatness, the flood sadly hampered the glory-cruise of William Hale Thompson, Chicago mayor, who last week started down the Mississippi from Cairo, accompanied by a large party on the river steamers Cincinnati and Cape Girardeau. Refugees, clinging to ridgepoles...
Property damage was estimated from $500,000,000 to a billion. The flooded zone is all rich cotton land. Most of the victims were small farmers-owners of several acres, a few pigs, chickens, cows, a mule. Their lives spared, they saw watery desolation where their possessions had been...
...student shall keep a dog in a college building"; nothing whatsoever is said about smoking, for the very good reason that there was nothing to be said. Harvard may or may not be the home of the brave, but there can be no doubt that it is the land of the free...