Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth number has just been published of a magazine called the "American Campus" which proposes to tell briefly what college students are doing and thinking. Judging from its contents, it either continues itself to certain colleges or roams about idiotically in the land or fiction. Whether the sentimental trash it prints is actually gleaned from real campuses, it is impossible to say. Certainly some of the publications of small time colleges show a cheapness of much the same sort. But as for such stuff bring typical of colleges throughout the county, most assuredly...
...cleanse a grubby name, could not risk loss of publicity. He was ordered to publish his find at once. He refused. A Frenchman found Phage, got the publicity. Arrowsmith was in bad odor at McGurk, even at McGurk, supposedly one of the three strongholds Science had in the land...
...newt, the polliwog, the lizard and the water-snake, thoughtless creatures that swam in the shallow seas that covered the world in time's twilight until, stranded on limacious, shelving beaches left by those waters as the sun sucked them away, they died and turned to stone . . . enormous land beasts that shouldered through the early jungles of the world or straddled, whinnying, its ice-blistered rocks - the Dinosaurus, the Brontosaurus and the ringstreaked Lehthyornis, strange fowl: these were, last week, loaded tenderly into 40 trucks, moved into the new building of the Peabody Museum at Yale. More than...
...Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, Irish Free State and Malta, all of which are largely sovereign Powers owing allegiance to a common King) have a total area of 7,471,938 square miles, which is slightly more than 55% of the area of all the land possessed in name by King George V, i. e. 13,357,672 square miles. Hence, since a choice must be made, it would seem to fall upon "Commonwealth...
...where the Alaska peninsula begins; while Nome is situate on the south coast of Seward peninsula, many hundred miles from the Alaska peninsula. Anchorage is north of the 61st parallel of North Latitude and Nome is north of the 64th parallel. If you referred to the great body of land between Cook Inlet and Norton Sound as the "Alaskan" peninsula, you will find on examination that neither Alaskans, maps nor geographers agree with you. In other words, there is no "Alaskan peninsula, while the "Alaska" peninsula is situate as above described...