Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Housing Trust's new buildings providing accommodations for married graduate students have been just completed. The site of the graduate homes occupies a half acre of land facing on Mr. Vernon Street and lying between Sparks Street and Doane Street. The grading and landscaping of the grounds are still in progress but will be completed this fall...
...Said Lawyer Steuer: "Harry Daugherty -yesterday, sought after by all the land; today, hounded; a broken old man; his life spent; his best friend, the President, dead; his close friend Jess Smith, gone, a suicide ; his wife gone; his political career over. He went to the 'shack,' and those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. So this lonesome old man, alone with those records, destroyed them...
Though the Queen's U. S. itinerary was not fixed definitely last week it appeared certain that she would land in Manhattan on Oct. 18, dine the next evening at the White House, and tour the U. S. thereafter until mid-December...
...belief that Alaska is a land of ice and snow, people solely by a few Eskimo tribes is quite incorrect. Many districts are similar to the Eastern part of the United States and compare very favorably in the matter of climate. Moreover, it is a region full of scenic beauties whose variety is probably not surpassed in any other single part of the earth...
...outlook, declare they will go too if he persists, the absolute breach between the pre-war generation and the post-war becomes only too apparent and it is the significance of this breach that Major Gibbs then drives home. He terms it "the meaning of No Man's Land." "When Jules Verne first wrote about submarines and electric rifles," he says, "and all those things, the people of his day thought he was crazy as they think us now. We've been jerked as far ahead as he was. We've been wasting our energy cursing because people...