Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Repulse, the Prince of Wales aboard, left Cape Town for the island of St. Helena where a brief stop was to be made. On Aug. 14 the Prince will transfer to the light cruiser Curlew which, drawing less water, will be able to land the British Heir Apparent at Montevideo, his first stop on the South American continent...
...with the consequence that numerous Poles in Upper Silesia, many of whom were in the same position as the Germans in Poland (except a number of recent immigrants working in the Ruhr mines and elsewhere) , had to leave everything they held dear and travel against their will to the land of their forebears...
...many clocks; too much sitting, too much clock watching-so diagnosed Secretary Work in the Department of Interior. He ordered a clearance of surplus furniture. In one day, 250 chairs, numerous stools, desks, wardrobes, clocks-two vanloads of stuff valued at $6,264-was carted away from the General Land Office to the General Supply Office, saved...
...Diet (Parliament) decided last week that there shall be a great partition of property throughout the land...
...measure was ignorantly alleged to be an act of courtesy toward the U. S. Government. This seemed far-fetched : 1) because Columbus, on his first trip west, did not discover the land which is now called the U. S.; 2) Italians have always been at some pains to insist that Columbus was an Italian...