Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broomcorn from southeastern Europe to a Canadian broom factory. After a few years of glutting themselves, they practically wiped out Canada's corn crop. Then a hearty band of pilgrims was tossed about, until they set foot in the U. S. Instinctively, they moved westward toward the promised land. The moth flies at the rate of 150 miles a season; the worm nibbles the corn, does the damage. During the last two years, they have been reported in Indiana and many another state but not until last week did they officially cross the border into Illinois. They whetted their...
...voice, menacing, came from the woods behind him. General Pershing turned, heard gruff phrases from the lips of a distraught plainsman, obviously the owner of the land on which he, General Pershing, hunted...
...Ernest Grimm, farmer, killed a skunk that nad long haunted the adjoining farm of his cousin, Edward Grimm. With clothespin on nose, Ernest Grimm skinned the skunk, hung the pelt in his barn. In the night Edward Grimm made off with the pelt. A skunk caught on his land, he remarked when he met his cousin next day, was his skunk. Words followed. In the lonely barnyard, Grimm fought Grimm. Ernest, with a slap of his hand, broke the nose, already inflamed, of Edward. Edward brought suit for $5,000 for assault and battery. "I've skinned one skunk...
...ending at 1:30 p. m. Rates: $25 per min.; minimum, three min., maximum twelve min. (though on the second day a Manhattan woman was allowed to chatter along for 28 min., costing $700). The equipment involved cost five millions. The route: New York to Rocky Point, L. I. (land wire), to Wroughton, England (radio), to London (land wire), to Rugby (land wire), to Houlton, Me. (radio), to New York (land wire...
...political satire presents an occasion for truly national mourning. The decease is not recent; one hardly knows when to record the unhappy end of the art of Dean Swift. That it is dead, however, and that it has left the political arena in this country a sterile waste land compared to what it was in its prime, is hardly to be denied...