Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eric the Red; Icelandic chief and settler of Greenland; also called "Leif the Lucky." Blown out of his course while returning from Norway in 1000 A. D. to Christianize Greenland, he reached a far-western land where "self-sown" wheat grew, and vines. He called it Vineland, later exploring it, wintering there-in southern Nova Scotia...
...goddess of the poultry yard in the land Abraham came from...
...Moon has sharp eyes, he may have noticed little specks moving through the gray-green scum of Earth's land, sea and inner atmosphere?specks far fleeter than the ones he had noticed in previous centuries crawling over the wide watery expanses; specks that now flit in a few days' time from sea to sea, from continent to continent...
...Gonzalez-Gallarza who had come all the way from their native Spain on a hopping-trip from Madrid in two planes. They were to keep hopping until they reached Manila in the Philippines. They received word that in crossing Japan the military authorities would not allow them to land on the Island of Formosa. But Japan's warning proved unnecessary. Landing at Macao, Asiatic Portugal, one flyer struck a tree; his comrade's plane was missing. Companions in another plane had been confounded crossing the turbulent air-passages of hot Arabia, had descended in a sandstorm, been rescued after exposure...
Greece, short of funds, worked out a plan of payments in land for the citizens of its pestilential slum quarter north of the Acropolis at Athens, whom it wished to evict that the greatest excavation in Europe since Pompeii might be made. Last fortnight, this digging finally began. Dr. Edward Capps of Princeton, onetime U. S. minister to Greece, turned the first spadeful of the thousands of tons of earth that will be removed from Athens' ancient Agora, or market place, the site of many temples which, though, looted by conquerors, should still contain many art treasures of the Golden...