Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...university that a student has done an adequate amount of this work successfully. It is feasible to begin college teaching immediately after graduation and carry on at the same time graduate work, if one's position is in a university that gives advanced degrees, which will eventually land the Ph.D. degree, but it is a difficult doubling of jobs and should hardly be tried except under financial necessity. Three years of detached graduate study is by far the best preparation for college teaching...
...President transmitted to the Senate a recommendation of Secretary Hughes that U. S. sovereignty be extended over Swains Island, a little speck of land off the Bonavista Bay district of Newfoundland, not far from Greenspond Island. It was discovered by a Briton who deeded it to an American. Great Britain does not contest our sovereignty...
...Passed a House resolution authorizing an investigation of certain land grants made to the Northern Pacific Railway...
...referred to the recent Republican fiasco (the nomination of the "unknown" Senator Harding). The comment of the country, she declared was: "Well, they might have done worse." Then gazing directly at her hearers, she proclaimed: "Nominate Mr. Davis and the comment that will ring through out the land will be 'Well, they couldn't have done better...
...interest, and which can be exchanged only for the actual necessities and common luxuries of life. How is this to be achieved? By a giant corporation-the People's Corporation. Let it be created as a sort of super-holding corporation, to acquire, first all securities, then all land and the physical property of production. Let nothing be expropriated. Let everything be paid for at market prices. By an ingenious system of pyramiding (the issuance of non-interest bearing, legal tender, industrial notes on property already acquired) the whole of the world's wealth could be acquired...