Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austen Chamberlain, the British Foreign Minister, assured me at Locarno that England's entire naval and land forces would be at Germany's disposal if France should dare to cross our frontier with the Locarno Treaties in effect...
...Right Reverend Benjamin Ivins, 41-year-old Bishop Coadjutor of Milwaukee ("youngest bishop in the U. S." said: "The work of every form of organization in this land is staggering and faltering. We are rapidly losing the very foundation of our civilization, the home. People are living in holes in the wall; the social graces of the home have become the manners of the restaurant and the public dancing hall...
Continually on the move, keeping safely away from government boats, and luring them into long pursuits that exhaust their fuel, the runners from shore are trying to reach the beleaguered fleet in time to land their cargoes for the Christmas holidays...
...extremely doubtful that they could if they tried to, for the Chinese by nature are a self-complacent people, and the form of land-owning differs from that in Russia. Eighty percent of the Chinese are farmers, but they own their own fields rather than having them village owned as in Russia...
Thus ended a sporting trip in the name of Natural Science which has had many kinds of publicity (TIME, March 16). When the brothers were trekking through perilous snowy passes in Kashmir and Thian Shan, losing ponies and porters, and living off the land with their trusty rifles as they dashed back into the Pamirs after one fruitless visit, their vicissitudes were followed as though they had been hunting the north pole instead of a species of mountain sheep unknown to our museums...