Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...38th annual Convention of the Association of Land Grant Colleges, the President in person addressed words of comfort and caution...
Another is likely to be added to the list when Congress assembles; for it is understood that the Administration will recommend that an expenditure of $1,150,000 be made to acquire land and build a new Embassy and Consulate in Tokio, where the old (and inadequate) Embassy was destroyed by the earthquake...
...there any normal father in all the land who was going to bribe a public official and imperil his reputation and character, who would select his only son to carry the bribe? The selection of that only son was the very indicia that the man who sent the money had nothing in his mind which was evil or corrupt. . . . Does a bribed official give or send to a briber a promissory note for the bribe...
...proclamation of the President. Nov. 17 and the six days immediately thereafter were observed as American Education Week. U. S. citizens throughout the land, especially parents and schoolteachers, bore in mind an official program arranged for them by the Bureau of Education (adjunct of the U. S. Department of the Interior) associated with the American Legion and the National Education Association...
...hallowed boards of the Metropolitan Opera Company may soon be graced, or disgraced, by a jazz opera--bizarre monster which could only be conceived in this land of Puritan hymnals and Hottentot orgiastic syncopation. The jazz-some scores of American popular ballads of "blues" and "mammies" are to be metamorphosed from their present fragmentary staff into an epic-like opera of the formerly humble working girl. Where princeases and courtesans footed nimbly across the stage and devastated admirers with their blasting rant, the tender shop or factory girl, the Cinderella princess of the automobile and ready-made clothes, will share...