Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frightened young dupe who cowered behind the alias of "Mr. A." will now be one of the five reigning princes of India who are entitled to a salute.of 21 guns outside of their own state. He will rule over the Kasparturos of Herodotus, over the land of nightingales and roses, the vales of Kashmir...
...universities and colleges of this fair land are crying out against the avalanche of students that press for entrance. Their finances and facilities, they say, are inadequate to care for the mob; they are forced, however reluctantly, to restrict their numbers, put up the bars turn their backs on the democracy that was one of their cherished ideals in the dear dead days, etc., etc. But strangely enough they do nothing to modify the great annual advertising campaign that brings the candidates swarming about their ivied portals. We refer of course, to the intercollegiate football season...
...estimated, according to preliminary plans, that the land and the building, which will house 250 students and the gymnasium, will cost a little more than $1,300,000. Nearly 1500 doctors have subscribed to the fund a total of more than $110,000. About 600 other donors have given over $200,000 and Mr. Vanderbilt's two gifts aggregate $700,000. The University has agreed to contribute the sum of approximately $300,000 as an investment...
...time has come," the wizard said, "when the State should resume legal authority over the land...
...that a good deal of his material is shoddy. It is highly colored but the dyes run. He does not talk as people talk; his new idiom is not sufficiently imaginative to wear. The phrase, employed by TIME (Sept. 22, 1924) when his books first began to sweep the land, remains the best description: he is the Harold Bell Wright of the sophisticates...