Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ever since its inception, West Virginia University, being a land grant college, has maintained not only an Agricultural Experiment Station, but a College of Agriculture as well. She has one of the finest buildings for her students in this profession as can be found. She maintains several fine farms on which these students get their practical experience, and believe me or not, it is practical...
...made it a sanitorium, then a playground. Financial vicissitudes naturally resulted from the influx of people ready to spend money freely for on those dearest objects of life-health and fun. Violent hurricanes came, too, to interrupt the development of a winter paradise. But now the crazy land-booms have subsided. The damage of the latest hurricanes is repaired and future damage provided against more carefully. The visits this year of the country's two leading figures, the outgoing Coolidge and the incoming Hoover, help to date a new prosperity in Florida and the whole Southeast...
...Byrd, last week, was ice-locked on his City of New York. He rewired the Times an invitation to Captain Wilkins: "Hearty congratulations on your splendid flight. Don't forget you will find a warm welcome if you fly to our base." This message the Times forwarded by land telegraph to the Examiner in San Francisco, 3,000 miles across this continent; the Examiner pushed it by wireless the 7,500 miles to Captain Wilkins. So it went a 20,500-mile triangle although the two explorers were only 2,000 miles apart...
...private owners of some public utility, the suppliers of gas, bringers of electric light, should want their ownership to continue, might they not teach school children that such ownership was beneficent? Here and there they might juggle a paragraph in a textbook adopted throughout the land. They might now and again send inconspicuous checks to school teachers who preached that private ownership was public weal, State ownership "Bolshevism." When the school children reached maturity and taxpaying, they would accept private ownership of public utilities as matter of course...
...viewed by many as pernicious. Others, hailing it as informative, would uphold it. Last July, the Federal Trade Commission conducted a public utility investigation following the acerbities which greeted the political largess of Public Utility Potentate Samuel Insull. That these utilities had spread propaganda throughout the schools of the land was made patent...