Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crux of the trouble between Britain and Turkey has been that each has a different idea as to where the boundary line should be situate. This led to no mere equivocation. Angry words and angry deeds resulted; land was occupied by both sides, not without bloodshed. War was in the air; but, fortunately, sane counsel prevailed; and the two Nations placed their problem unreservedly before the League for its solution...
...south in favor of Turkey; three times it bulged north in favor of Irak, whose mandatory guardian is Britain. The British received most territory; and the concessions granted to Turkey were regarded as useless. Turkey, however, won a big point; for she established her right over a tract of land that Britain had emphatically labeled "No Man's Land...
...leave his charges to their own devices to come to Cambride, but it is safe to say that he will await with more than ordinary interest the announcement of the clarion-voiced Eddie teling that "at the end of the se-cund pee-riud of the Yay-ele-Mary-land game, the sco-ere stands...
...many months it has been recognized that the Soviets have abandoned the attempt to establish communion by force. The first effort to impose collective ownership of all equipment, all land, and all products has been relaxed, and under the individualistic regime, the agencies unhampered by communistic control have advanced in number, prosperity, and importance...
...that the returns published had borne out what it had claimed right along were gross discriminations and irregularities in the income-tax law itself. The individuals shrewd enough to have put their fortune into tax-exempt securities, or to have diverted their income into increased corporate surpluses or appreciated land values, escaped lightly. The blunderers who accepted large cash profits directly paid through the nose. The result was what everyone (except perhaps the farm bloc) had predicted. Meanwhile, publication of the returns created so much uproar as to constitute a public nuisance...