Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clear the land of evil, drive the road, the bridge and ford...
...Friend Karovitch, you are returning to the land where many of us have relatives and all of us have friends...
...Babbit is sure that "Alexander Caesar, Attila, Charlemagne, th settlers of Manhattan, and the west" were actuated by the same urge which has recently raised prices in Florida. And it may be said that although Attila and John Doe stand for somewhat different methods of land improvement, it is substantially true that each followed a kindred instinct and urge. In fact economists have long recognized this urge and given it the caption, "land hunger". One may suspect that the term real estate finds company in Mr. Babbit's mind with barbarian transactions chiefly to steady the turbulence of property dealings...
...Bingham '16 brought out the necessity of a new swimming pool and a gymnasium, saying that when the new pool was built, as he hoped it would be by this time next year, it would be on a plot of land big enough to allow a gym to be erected beside it. He also reiterated his former statement that the extra money received from the new price of Princeton and Yale football tickets would be used entirely for the benefit of men who were not on any of the regular squads...
Certain cynics have recently wondered just what it profits a man to lose his land for points unknown. There is, as they have so well said, the opportunity for a long walk home. But cynics are usually patrons of hearth fires where criticism, like Aristotelianism, is a thing easily possessed. Romanticism when it means the conquest of more matter by the mind and courage of man is so satisfying, so adequate that one wonders after all if at times romanticism and classicism are not two faces of a Janus who is the world...