Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Squantum on Wednesday, September 25, has been discovered to be W. A. Spurr, a Senior at Harvard. Spurr, who was taking part in a naval reserve flight on Wednesday, said yesterday that he was flying at a high rate of speed close to the ocean, and disappeared behind some land, there by starting the rumor that the plane liad disappeared in the ocean...
...place of its predecessor. It is the tale of how the treasure got to Treasure Island. Not Stevenson, but Smith has written itmple story of an undermanned ship and a force gang. It was the daring plan of his great uncle, the cold, the cool, the calculating Murray, on land the inspired follower of King James, at sea the terrible pirate, Captain Rip-Rap. With young Ormerod is taken his redoubtable friend the Dutchman Peter Corlaer, a veritable Lionel Strongfort for bodily prowess. With them also goes the red-haired boy Darby to whom the taste of piracy is sweet...
Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Conn, (commonly called "Farming-ton"). Founded 1843 "in a small way" by Sarah Porter, sister of P'resident Noah Porter of Yale University (1871-1886). "She gave to hundreds of the best-born women of the land that poise and stability of character, that combination of learning and good manners, which is a mark of the noblest American womanhood." Farmington, whose course is indefi- nite in length and character, has a reputation for distinction of dress and deportment. It caters to "the finer families." Its product is rather the perfect lady than the trained mind...
...intensely active ultraviolet light, and you have sugar. Genuine glucose has been made 'by this process, but before such can become a breakfast-table commodity the proper wavelength of the violet ray must be ascertained. It is roughly gauged at from 200 to 220 millimicrons.- If all the land were bread and cheese, and all the sea were ink, what would we do for gasoline? This was the general proposition discussed by T. A. Boyd and C. M. Larson, Manhattan scientist. "Petroleum," prophesied the former, "will be obtained in the future by cracking cruder grades of oil. The continuance...
...that if money could sharpen this competition, Macfadden had millions. They knew that he "expected to make a few million dollars for myself and associates" and would therefore force the fray. They realized that if The Graphic turned out successful, many another such sheetlet would sprout forth in the land, being cheaper to produce than any gum-chewers' delight ever evolved...