Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are several dark spots on the picture I have tried to draw. We do not know what led the Mayas to abandon their great cities in the south and move northward. The exhaustion of the cultivable land may have been one of the reasons. We are also ignorant as to the events which led up to the fall of this civilization about 1450. Civil war, the injurious effects of the presence of foreigners and in all probability epidemics of yellow fever were contributory...
...principle the recommendation of the Student Council at Harvard that the University be subdivided into colleges on the Oxford model strikes us as excellent. Harvard is far from being the largest university in the land, but recently it has had to limit its Freshman class to 1,000. One thousand students are not a college, they're a mob, and in this case they form only one of four classes in the undergraduate unit. With units like this to deal with little wonder that our colleges have become factories, turning out graduates like Fords. There is no other...
Within the flaming personality of Mussolini is a cold nucleus, an icy core of reason and discretion. Last week, however, as he continued in triumphal style through Italian Tripoli (TIME, April 19), that warm and colorful land seemed to quicken in him a mood of expansive wellbeing. His utterances mellowed from veiled imperial threats toward the colonies of other nations into a hymn in praise of Tripoli...
...Mussolini re-embarked upon the battleship Conte di Cavour for Italy. As he steamed away 15 battleships followed. Observers opined that the numerous provincial Fascist secretaries who accompanied him will fire many an inland Italian with the desire to emigrate to Tripoli. There they may purchase an acre of land for the equivalent of $1, upon signing an agreement to expend the equivalent of $30 in improving it during the next ten years...
...books of nature lore. Later he prepared animal stories by collecting and having his wife read him exhaustive data on the country and creature he wanted to write about. He wrote of bison, wolves, wild horses, reindeer, moose, bear, beaver. He laid his scenes in Kentucky, Alaska, France, Baffin Land, Norway, New Brunswick, the Adirondacks, the Rockies, the prairies. His literary activities have been incessant and of great variety. But among two score titles, the best are those on wild life...