Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This will be the greatest structure ever erected by any community to tell its own living will", says Chancellor Bowman of the new edifice. The determination to rise to dizzy heights instead of staying close to the ground is masked under the cloak of convenience, saving in land investment, better light, etc., but it is perfectly obvious that an exuberant community is merely indulging in a little self-advertising. No starting academic progress may be expected from such an innovation, and on the grounds of sentiment the thing becomes preposterous. Buildings pleasantly mantled with ivy, the play of sunlight among...
...Melba- they smothered her under mountains of flowers; Patti-they took her out to supper on their shoulders; Jenny Lind -50 brilliant, chilly young men pulled her carriage up Fifth Avenue. Now Galli-Curci, who recently made her first English appearance before the coldest, the shiniest audience in the land. They did not even wait to hear her sing but met her steamer, conducted her to London with what the British press termed "unprecedented popular enthusiasm." She appeared before them to justify this reception; suddenly they became scpetical. Here was a lady in a Paris ballgown, younger, slimmer than great...
...Michigan's two-year course qualified a student for his Master's degree in business administration; that Northwestern University was teaching realty by day and by night; that Columbia University was giving night real-estate classes; that the University of Southern California had enrolled 800 students in land economics and kindred subjects...
...coldest, the shiniest audience in the land...
...style has swept the ceremonious diction of the Victorian writers from American fiction; and above all, he express that gaiety and resilience which are the distinguishing American characteristics. Bret Harte is the prophet of humor and humanity, but like most prophets he is honored everywhere but in his own land...