Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ogden, Utah. Nominee Robinson cried out upon "the appeal to passion and prejudice." En route from Boise to Ogden, he was presented with pheasants, venison, fruits of the land...
...cities grow, however, cities awaken. Chicago has taken its shore lines in hand, built new land with sandsuckers and made a new outer-driveway to the south as well as a made-land drive skirting Lincoln Park on the lakeside and a riverside boulevard (Wacker Drive) around scow-ridden reaches of the Chicago River. And last week New York City's Board of Estimate finally approved plans for a driveway, which will ameliorate land values as well as living standards, up the western shore of Manhattan Island from Canal Street to 59th Street. A linking boulevard from 59th Street...
...Jewish half gave Moses dispassionate insight into Hebrew nature-thus he chose not to enter Canaan knowing that it was the promised land only as long as it remained a promise. (The Bible claims, on the contrary, that Jehovah forbade him enter because he had sinned with a foreign light of love.) Untermeyer notes radical differences between Joshua's matter-of-fact record, and Nath's beautified narrative: Joshua itemizes the miraculous God-sent path through the Red Sea as matter of calculated tides and wind...
...nature. Legislative wisdom, business ability, and knowledge of men who have the characteristics of certain politicians at Washington is essential. These qualities are evident in the career of Alfred E. Smith. That is why forty distinguished professors at Harvard agreed upon his fitness for the highest office in the land...