Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will promptly be told that Frank Orren Lowden or Charles Gates Dawes is as likely to be the next President of the U. S. as is Calvin Coolidge. If he signs it, he will be called upon to apologize to New England and "sound businessmen" throughout the land, and will be accused of having lost his character as a strong, silent man. Incidentally, he may find that his signature has been attached to an unconstitutional measure. And he will get little credit for signing?as everyone will be told that the signing was a case of sour pickles...
...week the farm bill, which a month ago had been as dead as a pig in a stockyard, commanded the immediate attention of the Senate?with an even chance of passing by a narrow margin. Thus with two neat strokes of strategy, the farmers were in sight of that land of milk and honey which the government had for five years told them was never-never land...
...content with his wandering Leys is now looking toward India. He has travelled enough by sea, he says, and is looking for a long land trek. In 1928 he hopes to go inland through India, and come out through China
...Committee approved the tentative plan to develop tennis courts and playing fields on the vacant land on North Harvard Street south of the Business School. This step, however, is subject to the approval of the Corporation with regard to drawing the necessary money from the athletic funds. The plan involves the building of between 12 and 16 tennis courts, and the grading and seeding of six or seven acres of athletic fields. The rapid development of intramural sports and the need of the Business School for athletic fields have given rise to the necessity of increasing the University's athletic...
...Palm Beach, Epsom Downs, Paris, West-bury, New Haven and Princeton. "Men who know and care about what to wear," reads the legend underneath, "gather at these places for business, pleasure, or social activities" Cambridge, to the sartorial lexicographer of Hart. Schaffner and Marx, is terra incognita, a wild land whence explorers bring back tales of wild and unkempt savages, untailored philistines...