Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been received the week before to have the U. S. represented at a conference of 18 nations at Geneva on Feb. 15. This conference is to fix the place, the date and the matter for consideration, etc., of a later conference which is to deal with disarmament by land...
...their entire ignorance concerning the Order of St. John. Promptly they were informed that it is the sole survivor of the many knightly orders established during the Crusades. A well supported legend ascribes its foundation to Pope Gregory the Great (540-604), who established numerous hospices in the Holy Land. After the capture of Jerusalem in 1099, the Order of St. John the Baptist at that place became the cradle of the numerous orders of St. John of Jerusalem, of which a still surviving offshoot exists in England, Germany, Italy, Silesia...
Tumbleweeds. William S. Hart has not changed a bit. He is back after a long retirement with a typical two-gun tale tempered with love and kindness. The scene is the Oklahoma land rush when the Cherokee reservation was thrown wide to eager homesteaders. Mr. Hart is thoroughly welcome home. His western pictures, so long a staple of national entertainment, are too consistently good (if never great) to be taken from...
...will deny the possibility that eventually the Arctic regions will be filled with lanes of human traffic. If Captain Wilkins can fly successfully from land to land across the polar desert, he will hasten the eventuality. That is the great utilitarian purpose of the venture. The sporting and the scientific purposes converge on the Ice Pole, which is farther distant from any port than any other spot in the Arctic, and which for this reason is more difficult of access even than the North Pole itself. Scientifically, there are reasons for supposing that the Ice Pole is surrounded by land...
...light?the dream of a girl he had loved in boyhood, and the memory of a year spent convalescing from illness on an uncle's farm. Unexpectedly the farm was bequeathed to him. With his dull wife and the bitter memory of a stillborn son, he went to the land. He grew ambitious, fiery. Only his timid wife and the want of a son darkened his horizon. The mouselike wife saw, and left him that he might marry the sewing maid on whose youth he looked with lust. That feckless wench gave him a son, but left him with ruin...