Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest point of land on the island of Manhattan stands Tyron Hall, once the Louis XIV palace of Mr. Billings, so large that it is really a country estate in the city. In 1917 he sold it to John D. Rockefeller Jr., who gave it to the city as a museum...
...California, the McAdoos are fighting for the nomination of one John B. Elliott for Senator. If they are successful, then Democrats throughout the land might sit up and say: "Ah, William Gibbs still has political potency; he runs things in his own state." Mrs. McAdoo took an active part in the primary campaign when she wrote a letter to Mr. Elliott last week...
...popular outlines and abridgments of many subjects that followed his selected "five-foot shelf" of indispensable classics from the world's literature (The Harvard Classics) have been partly responsible for a level of mass culture in the U. S. higher than that to be found in any other land...
...Canada, our home and native land, True patriot love in all thy sons command. With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The true north, strong and free, And stand on guard, O Canada, We stand on guard for thee. CHORUS O Canada, glorious and free, We stand on guard, we stand on guard for thee. O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. O Canada, where pines and maples grow, Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow, How dear to us the broad domain, From east, to western sea. Thou land of hope for all who toil Thou true north...
...over whom Joseph Stalin has reared himself a despot. M. Stalin ("Mr. Steel") exerts, simply as Secretary of the Communist Party, a political "boss power" prodigious and all pervasive. A cobbler's son whose actual name and age are doubtful, "Mr. Steel," was born in the remote Transcaucasian land of Vras-tan, Gruzia or Georgia.* Amid the purging flames of revolution, the great Dictator Lenin tested and tempered the Georgian's metal, gave him the prophetic name of Stalin, installed him in the office which he has made the focus of all Russia, the Secretariat of the Communist...