Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have from their first appearance on the margin of history been the children of freedom. Native to a rigorous climate and a none too productive soil, they have learned the necessity for hard work and careful management. They were moved by that aspiration for a free holding in the land which has always marked peoples in whom the democratic ideal was pressing for recognition. Eager for both political and economic independence, they realized the necessity for popular education, and so have always been among the most devoted supporters of public schools. Thousands of them volunteered in the service...
...Blues planned to seize not Lanai, but Molokai for an air base; then to make a feint with the fleet at the south coast of Oahu, making its main landing attack on the north coast, with a secondary landing on the west coast. As a matter of fact, both Molokai and Lanai were seized. The airplane carrier Langley was kept well at sea to avoid the Black submarines and the Blue airplanes flew to land as soon as the Islands were taken. Before this, the Black airplanes inflicted losses on the landing parties, sinking a tender, but of course could...
...Blue feint at the south shore of Oahu was a failure. The Blacks were not deceived and the attack brought the Blue fleet under the fire of strong land batteries. This was the second day of the attack. Early the following morning the Blues made their landing attack. On the west coast, the umpires decided that they were repulsed. On the north coast, the umpires held that they suffered severe losses, but were successful. The reserves were too far away...
...enough to fill thirty-two pages at any time of the year. But if congressmen returning from Europe are successful in quelling their natural tendencies, a great amount of hot air can be stored up for the snowy season, and the clouds of ignorance which hang over this darkened land of Egypt will not be thickened by congressional belchings. In fact, no worthier person than Mr. Hardy could be found to be awarded first prize of Diogenes lantern, for he has not only contributed signally to his country's welfare, but he has set an example that a few congressmen...
...newest civil war in China is on the point of breaking out. Once again Western eyes are drawn uncomprehending toward that land of vast numbers and unknown forces. And the multiplicity of explanations is in itself enlightening...