Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Continuance of the tax on land values...
...drawing up codes of ethics that most of their fellows laugh at, as a Congressman laughs at a gentleman. . . . There are dozens of papers in the U. S. that already show a determined effort to get out of the old slough. Any managing editor in the land, if he has the will, can carry his paper with them. ... Is the paper trifling, ill-informed, petty and unfair? Is its news full of transparent absurdities? Are its editorials ignorant and without sense? Is it written in blowsy slipshod English, full of cliches and vulgarities-English that would disgrace a manager...
...somewhere in this favored land, the sun is shining bright...
...Ambassador, characterized by Chief Justice William Howard Taft as the ablest lawyer in the world, it would be possible for him to bring to the office of President qualifications rarely given the ordinary individual. The wave of unrest in the agricultural and the industrial centres of the land may be traced to the glut in the market, resulting from inability of the American Public to absorb the output of America...
...further this contact, and to preserve land for the future growth of the University, it is desired that the buildings be placed close together, rather than far apart, and, according to the program, "buildings designed in consonance with Harvard tradition, with appreciative use of materials and careful detail, with variation enough to avoid monotony, and with as much domestic feeling as is reasonable, are desired...