Word: land
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House which he patiently raised to great power; and now his arch-enemy Austria reappears amid the fold from which he drove it with blood and iron. But the wheel of fate which has crushed the works of his hand has likewise crushed Austria. Stripped of its power, its land, its resources, the once proud state looks to a weak Germany as its last hope in a struggle for existence...
...Tokyo University (Tokyo Teikoky Daigaku)-the main centre of culture in Japan -occupies 310 acres of ground in and near the City of Tokyo. The buildings alone, before the earthquake, occupied nearly 35 acres of land. There are seven faculties: Letters, Law, Science, Medicine, Engineering, Economics, Agriculture. In a recent report, there were nearly 25,000 alumni and over 6,000 students...
...woman shrieked, seeing the portholes burst. The vessel groaned, feeling downward for her grave on the cold seafloor. The Black Sea flung its folding mountains on and on toward land and the winter gale hissed a dirge for the works...
...cavalry man who can fly, an Army man strongly advocating the service union which the Navy dreads; Godfrey Cabot, President of the National Aeronautic Association, a Bostonian of the great Cabot clan, so far interested in New York City as to advocate Governor's Island as a landing field, but in a cool detached manner; R. E. M. Cowie, President of the American Railway Express, a canny, able old Scotchman, describing how the pushcart gave way to the horse-cart, the horse-cart to the express train, and predicting that the Express company will give unlimited business...
...colleges of the country have become crammed to overflowing with earnest youths seeking "success" through the "sesame" of a college education. Now when some thousands of disillusioned youths are turned loose on the land, something is bound to happen. A great howl has arisen about the impracticability of a college education. So great was the howl that our educational authorities (ambiguous euphemism, saving us the embarrassment of distinguishing between faculties and trustees) began to make concessions to its demands. Courses in economics of a more highly specialized character were introduced; Greek and Latin were allowed to go by the boards...