Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Dramatic Club has at last found the promised land. After being forced by the college authorities to remove its scenery, first from the top of Sever and thence to the basement of the Germanie Museum and from there to the street, this much-traveled organization, like the ancient, tribes of Israel, has passed through the wilderness and found its haven of refuge in a barn on Church Street...
...lowly arts," of crude, bare writings, of jazz, he detects a sort of Renaissance of literature and of art and a new emancipation from the ties of European precedent. Freed at last from conventional forms, America, he predicts, will advance in culture far beyond Europe, which is now a land whose development is stifled by hate...
...descriptions brought back by Marco Polo several centuries ago furnished the first account of that strange land. The animals sought are the Ovis Poli, or great sheep described by Polo, the yarklandstag, the ibex of Tian Shan, the goitered gazelle, the long-haired tiger, and the markhor (large goat...
...government for a new foundation of the Jewish homestead." This was the statement of Louis Lipsky, editor of "The New Palestine", and president of the Zionist Society of America, when questioned yesterday concerning the movement of that society for a return to Palestine and resettlement of the Holy land...
...mission has now widened considerably. It now not only attends to the transient fisher population, but also to the natives who are found to be quite intelligent when afforded an opportunity for education. From the one hospital on the ship, the mission has grown to have four hospitals on land, and in addition to this a number of churches, schools, and libraries. It is in order to run these establishments that the mission each year calls for volunteers who pay their own expenses to come to Labrador and work as "waps...