Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the Bolsheviki were strengthened by the return of their exiled leaders from Sweden, Switzerland, the U. S. Their strategy was to give expression to a wide spread craving for peace and land. The German general staff so completely understood this that Bolshevik Lenin was hurried from Switzerland across Germany in a sealed railway car. He was injected as a social virus into Russia by Germany...
Between June and November the All-Russian Congress of "People's Committees" or "Soviets," composed of delegates from all over Russia, transferred its support from Kerensky and his Menshevik War party to Lenin and his Bolshevik peace-and-land faction. Bolshevik propaganda in the army and navy caused many of the troops to obey Lenin rather than Kerensky...
...During the seventies it was expected that the University would expand towards the north," said Professor Conant, "and that is why Memorial Hall was placed where it is. In fact, an offer of all the land between Massachusetts Avenue and the river was refused...
...Concord earthquake was of a sort very apt to occur in New England when the ground melts in early spring, said Professor Mather, and is caused by small faults developing along frost cracks. The recent Japanese quake, however, was brought about by a slipping of land masses along a fundamental fault which lies near the shore. The serious Japanese earthquake of 1923 was also caused by this same fault...
...replied that there is a fault, the Funday Fault, which runs along the ocean floor about 75 miles out. A slipping along this fault may be expected every century at least, said Professor Mather, "This might reach an intensity of 8, sufficient to injure buildings, particularly those in filled land such as the Back Bay. Any such quake, however, would probably not be as serious as the one in San Francisco, since there the fault runs near the city...