Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aside from some criticism based on suspicion of academic institutions, the Government's move is approved by the Oxford-Tory tradition. The foundation of Toryism was "the land." When "trade" relegated "land" to an inferior position, Toryism lost hold. If Oxford can help to bring back the relative value of land, it will be a boon to Toryism as well as to individual farmers...
...explains why they refused to unseat Senator Newbury who clearly violated the Corrupt Practices Act. Out of this vicious tariff lobbying and out of campaign expenditures amounting to millions, have inevitably grown the insidious abuses of which the Harding administration has been guilty--the oil leases; land frauds; the Verterans Bureau scandal; secret tax refunds; illegal liquor withdrawals; stopping the prose cution of "friends" of the administration...
...days, embezzlers used to study extradition treaties with apprehension and prepare to jump to a new and unextraditable land with the remnant of their informally acquired wealth...
Today, seekers of divorce study the marriage laws with equal perspicacity and success. Prison or matrimony, there is sure to be some land where the laws permit escape. Signora Marconi, Lady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty Queen Elena of. Italy, who, before her marriage 20 years ago in England to Scientist Marconi, was the Hon. Beatrice O'Brien, fifth daughter of Baron Inchiquin, etc., etc., etc., thought she had found such a land...
...have one plane instead of four, only one or two officers sent ahead, scant Government help for what is purely a private venture. Still MacLaren is a very experienced pilot, his plans have been laid carefully in advance, he has the advantage of a plane which, with its retractible landing wheels, is just as much at home on water as on land...