Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Czech Government has been campaigning against both the Church and the German element in the country. Last week a commission from its Land Expropriation Bureau swept down without notice in Marienbad, seized the establishment, took over the management, appropriated all cash on hand, discharged all employes and replaced them by Czechs, declared that only Czech might be spoken...
...Enchanted April to make it a good season. The Sea Woman. The loudest melodrama in some months came in under this title and unwrapped a good deal of sound excitement. On a lonely lighthouse lives a not very young woman and her reluctant ward. The latter longs for the land and love. The latter she has learned from a fisherman along the coast, learned more completely than she expected as we learn promptly in the first act. To shield her fisherman she accuses a Government engineer and the latter gets a bullet in the arm from the enraged keeper...
...Naturalist of the expedition, Dr. Walter N. Koelz, radioed his first report to the National Geographical Society. Gray jellyfish, he told about; snails with wings; a fish like the bullhead, with ventral suckers for attaching itself to rocks while feeding; rare arctic birds in little-known summer plumage; land plants which eschew stems to snuggle next the ground and escape the wind; sea kelp, whose writhing shapes even Eskimos often mistook for animal life; carpets of wildflowers, luxuriant timothy, gaudy mosaics of lichen, orange and purple, on the black rock cliffs; the maniacal laughter of sky-filling clouds of dovekies...
...Accumulation of new technical data on Smith Sound, Ellesmere Island and Grinnell Land for subsequent attempts to explore the Polar...
...Chain Weizmann, onetime President of the World Zionist Organization, who has the backing of American Jewry. His program has been for colonization of Palestine with sound business or "capitalistic" methods. Opposed to him was a fiery Jewish Fascist, Vladimir Jabotinsky, inhabitant of Paris. He wants all the land of Palestine to be taken from its present owners and to be given to hundreds of thousands of Jews whom he would have quickly imported...