Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wakes memories through the land...
...Duggan '27, manager and assistant manager, respectively, of the second team, will be in charge of the class football managerial affairs. The class teams will use the old Freshman and second team fields near the Locker Building, and will probably also use the recently reclaimed land in the northwest corner of Soldiers Field, near the present Freshman gridiron...
Having inspected the Spanish land defenses, General Primo Rivera retired to the battleship Alfonso XIII, in Alhucemas Bay; and from thence issued peans of praise, in honor of General Saro and Fernandez Perez, who commanded the actual Spanish advance. Cried Primo, triumphant: "From now on there will be much war-If the rebels desire peace it will be they who ask for it. . . .Soon I shall be back in Madrid...
...Anderson, linguist, insurance man, rubber manufacturer, onetime (1885-9) U. S. Minister to Denmark, editor of Amerika (weekly), whose resolute chin is now overgrown with the white hairs of nearly 80 years, refused to accept the Cross of St. Olaf from King Haakon of Norway (his native land) just as he had refused in 1889 to accept the Cross of Danneborg from Haakon's father, King Christian, offered for his researches in Norwegian literature. Said Prof. Anderson: "Decorations and medals are humbug...
...many heathen chieftains and common people that the Pope summoned him to Rome and made him a bishop. Again he returned to Germany converting, baptizing overturning idols, founding churches, monasteries. For 32 years he continued in these holy occupations, virtually making Germany over from a heathen to a Christian land. Then once more the idea of Frisia came into his mind, and he set out for Frisia once more, and within a few days he and his associates were massacred bythe heathen. So ended Wynfrith, known as Boniface...