Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sept. 13; Dr. Fosdick will: preach to the League of Nations from the pulpit of John Calvin, founder of Presbyterianism, in the Cathedral Church, Geneva, Switzerland. He will then proceed to the Holy Land...
...organize an expedition to travel into the solar system." He produced a copy of The Solar Path, prospectus written by himself. "With each copy of this I give away a bond redeemable for $20 in 1960. ... At a height of about 800 miles from here, there is a solid land, a new earth. There we will find riches and precious stones in abundance and we intend to claim that new domain...
...author of The Crock of Gold and In the Land of Youth is thoroughly at home in New York City. He would be at home anywhere, in a curious, amused, detached sort of way. They tell of Irish charm. One sees it in varying quantities. James Stephens has more of it in the crook of his little finger than any other Shamrock wearer I have ever met has in his whole carcass. Small, wiry, with an effort almost of crookedness in the bend of his walk, with a face crinkled and traced by the ways of much laughter...
...family of his own! His family numbers by the hundreds, if not the thousands a huge, ever-young family of boys, the pick of the land, loyal and affectionate to the godfather of their minds and the friend of their youth. Uncle Dudley in the Boston Globe...
...course is being promoted by several prominent business men of Boston. They have purchased a considerable tract of land, including Weld estate, on the line between Brookline and West Roxbury, on which an 18-hole course has been laid out. Approximately $350,000 have been invested. The stock holders plan to sell shares in the club which will carry with them the privileges of the course and thus avoid the exorbitant initiation fees and annual dues of the ordinary country club...