Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perceptible now, throughout the land, is a craze: Questions, Questions. Let subscribers who wish to see potent questions, ably put, turn to p. 41 of THIS ISSUE. There they will find eight games that will well warrant their calling in their shrewdest friends, appointing an umpire and making an evening...
...along this path, we think, that there will come the solution of the college educational problem that of late years has become so urgent a question. The graduate who looks back on his college days and who feels that the mass education of his day did not land him personally anywhere and who regrets that he did not have the chance to develop this or that interest because of the rigidity of the curriculum of his day, will look on this new tendency as an inspired proceeding. At least his sons will have the opportunity which he missed. They will...
Professor Karpovich then explained that for centuries, the Russian peasants had had a desire to take over all the land in the country. The Kerensky government had itself been in favor of such a move but intended to effect it in an orderly manner. The Bolsheviks on the other hand advocated immediate seizure and the people were in such a frenzy that the quicker course was by far the more popular. The Reds thus had two trump cards, immediate peace and immediate seizure of land; the people did not support the Bolsheviks because they were such, but because...
Lenin was elected President of a new Cabinet, called the "Council of People's Commissars," and within little more than a month 193 decrees had been issued to give the people land, abolish titles and give the workers control of the factories...
...Haiti of the Colombian line neared St. Thomas harbor in the Virgin Islands, a dove, flying aimlessly far from land, alit on the deck. Wireless Operator William D. Collins occupied his idle hours cooing, chirruping, making enticing gestures with his fingers. The dove's hunger overcame its distrust when the man offered crumbs in his palm. The man, thinking the small creature loved him, felt benevolent, like...