Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questions the bravery of the American Negro soldier, let me relate the story of Sergeant Butler, of Company L, 369th Infantry, who pursued a German raiding party into No Man's Land after it had captured a white American officer and four or five Negro soldiers, and who alone and unaided, except by the small machine gun he carried, freed the white officer and the Negro soldiers and killed a half dozen of the German raiding party and seriously wounded the German officer, who later died in our trenches...
Governor J. Daugaard Jensen of Greenland: "I believe he used so much petrol that he was unable to return to his starting place and therefore flew as far as possible toward Cape Columbia [Ellesmere Land, about 250 miles nearer the Pole than Spitzbergen...
...fatally stricken (TIME, Mar. 30). The book, which takes the reader behind the scenes in India, is sure to be of great value and absorbing interest, for few men have followed the course of events in India as did Lord Curzon, him self once Viceroy of that land...
...Maharaja was a great sports man, a fact which made him particularly popular in England. He not only hunted big game in his native jungles, but shot grouse and partridge in Scot- land, played polo and was an enthusiastic cricketer...
...Land of Egypt. Joseph Smith Jr. had broken loose and Nauvoo, with 10,000 Mormons, swelled larger than any city in the state. Smith ruled by revelations -invariably convenient ones-by hellfire threats and a genial disposition. Besides being Prophet, he was judge, mayor and general of his own militia. When he said God had told him to start up polygamy as it had been in the days of Abraham and Solomon, none dreamed that the motive was not pious procreation, though a crony of the Prophet's was a "professor of midwifery," and Smith, a handsome six-footer...