Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaders informed their ignorant people that the sovereignty of Jarabub has been transferred from Egypt to Italy by an Italo-Egyptian Commission (TIME, Oct. 12, EGYPT), which made this important disposition of a virtually autonomous people while cruising about luxuriously in the Mediterranean (north of Jarabub) without troubling to land and make the awkward 270-mile trek inland to the oasis itself...
Note, Reply. Ambassador Sheffield delivered a U. S. note again protesting the recently enacted Mexican land and oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25), which the U. S. Government holds to be retroactive, confiscatory and in violation of the U. S. Mexican agreement of 1923, on the basis of which the U. S. recognized the present Mexican regime...
Although I am sorely tempted by Professor Gay's lecture this morning in Harvard 1 on "Western Expansion", wherein he will emphasize the points of free land and scarce labor even a vagabond cannot be in two places at once, and at 9 o'clock, I expect to hear Professor Tatlock instead. He is speaking in Sever 30 on "Social Conditions of the Restoration Drama." It was Mr. Basil Dean who was recently interviewed to the effect that the drama of today, because of comparable social conditions bears certain startling resemblances to that of the period which Professor Tatlock...
...Religion, which once dominated Turkish courts, is now not even permitted to enter' the courts. The Code Napoleon has completely supplanted the Koran and religious tradition as the law of the land...
Scarcely a college in the land but has its little son of Nippon, its quiet Chinaman, its bird-eyed Siamese or swarthy, ruminative Hindu. Scholarships bring to the U. S. hundreds of the best young brains of the Orient. But there have been no Iowa farmboys studying in Tokyo, no Boston freshman at Peking or Madras. The self-sufficient Occident has always assumed the teacher's role in its colleges at home, in its Christian missions abroad. Yet lately there have come missionaries to the Christians from the followers of Buddha, Confucius and Krishna. And last week another reciprocity...