Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprised when he concludes by saying that if his boy became an "aimless wanderer over and under the world" he would "nail his shoes to the floor". Like others who have sailed toward the horizon for romance and adventure he has ended by finding them in his own land, and even worse--in New York...
...organization which such vast numbers of students impose is a challenge to the greatest executive talent and qualities of leadership, mental and spiritual, which the United States is capable of producing. In the eager entrance of thousands upon thousands of new students each year into the colleges of the land is the Nation's greatest single promise of a noble and worthy future. May our educational leaders look well to the trust committed them! --Boston Transcript...
That bogey of liberty--"business efficiency"--is again stalking the land. Mr. Mencken accuses it of a well-assorted category of crimes. Its dastardly attack on the saloon has multiplied sentimental toasts and bibulous jokes. The Kansan prohibition of public smoking has become a subject of vaudeville humor. But the last and least expected of all its crimes is bound to provoke the usually docile American to revolt, instantaneous and complete...
...land, stories began to trickle into the newspapers telling of the havoc wrought by the cyclone. At Folkestone, a motor truck was blown into the sea and the driver killed. At Portsmouth, a tramcar was blown into a house. In Wales, the coal mines were flooded. Along the Thames, people were "drowned out of their houses." From every coastal point, news came to London telling of angry waves battering the piers and swamping the promenades. Damage to telegraph and telephone wires greatly interfered with communication, while Channel boats suspended service between England and France...
...Last month, James Buchanan Duke, North Carolina tobacco man, established a 40-million-dollar trust fund (TIME, Dec. 15). He told Trinity College (Durham, N. C.) that if it would become Duke University, it might have the money. Otherwise, there would be a new university in the land...