Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came from the southern and the eastern hemisphere; two came from the middle of the Pacific; two came from the land that borders on the Arctic Ocean; two came from a rectangular island in the Caribbean; two came from the Nation's Capital. But it wasn't all a two-by-two affair. From the state of New York came 91, from Pennsylvania 79, from Ohio 51. There were...
Entrance into the World Court, as proposed by President Coolidge. Refusal to enter the League of Nations. A conference, when conditions in Europe are favorable, to limit land forces, submarines, poison...
...Republican National Conventions since 1908, practically every important proposal submitted by the Wisconsin delegates up to 1916 has since been enacted into law. There are, indeed, only five of 31 planks submitted by Wisconsin 'during this period which are not now embodied in the law of the land...
...cent of all university men, long wearied with the somewhat captions Jeremiads of an older generation, will enthusiastically agree. In fact a majority of the presidential observations might almost be termed flowery. From the unbroken string of epithets and abuse which was fashionably applied to the youth of the land five years ago in the moral depression following the war, the weather vane of opinion has swung around to a point which almost indicates approaching tirades against the old for not keeping face with the spiritual idealism of the young...
...there are no grounds for objection to continued immigration on ethnic or engenic grounds, two very potent arguments for restriction still remain unshradded. In the latter portion of the last century, when large numbers of immigrants first began coming to this country, there was a vast quantity of free land which could not be cultivated because of the smallness of the population. This land has now been almost completely occupied, and a continued admission of new arrivals will accomplish little but an approximation of the crowded state of the agricultural areas of Europe...