Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agronomy is the application of scientific principles to the cultivation ef land...
...Oris P. and Mantis J.-are just two young Ohio brothers, now in their middle 40's, who, a few years ago, settled in Cleveland. O. P., the elder by two years of these two quiet, clear-eyed, clear-headed young men, took an option on some pasture land three miles out beyond the farthest car line and began to subdivide it into building lots. They began to develop it and, after a time, found that they had to have transit lines, that they would have to furnish transit themselves. So they opened negotiations with the Nickel Plate Railroad...
...touch Europe the Black Sea pours, its waters down the Bosporus into the blue Mediterranean and divides the West from the East. Here is the Near East, with its diversified aromas, its medley of tongues and faiths, its rowdy bazaars, its quaint assortment of dress, its veiled women-a land where Allah is worshipped and Muhammad is his Prophet. Here, too, are five American Colleges fearlessly imparting learning to various people of various races, of various religions...
When hostilities ceased S. W. Pomeroy bought the land and replaced the old house with the one which stands there today. In 1866 the house was bought by the University, but shortly afterwards it was sold to a Mrs. Baker, who served meals to students there. In 1897 the University again bought it and it has remained in that ownership since that time...
Whatever sense of triumph the patriot may entertain at this announcement must be tinged with an abiding pity for the unfortunate victims. No worse fate could be wished for a hated and despised enemy than to have his land suddenly swamped under an importation of clothes tailored at Fashion Park; or to have his respectable Sunday reading debauched by Eight Full Pages of Comics--Funnier Than Ever; or to witness his Shaws and his Galsworthys dethroned by barbarian Sandbergs and Andersons...