Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overseas police duties. If this were done, the Marines would require units of no more than brigade strength (8,000), would probably also have to take a big cut in overall strength. The Army could go ahead on the assumption that only the Army would run off the big land operations if war should come, could thus have all the planning under one roof...
Muffled rumblings of ten-pins and loud shouts of 'strike' will no longer fill the bowling alley next to Jim's Place on Dunster Street after April 1. The University owns the land, and has decided to cancel the lease granted seven years...
...plot of land was originally rented from the University by the Boston Elevated Railway around 1840. The company built the two-story structure to hold hay and equipment for the horse-barns then located across the street...
Most of the picture is mere "minor" detail and incident: a summer storm, a Sunday Mass, an inarticulate courtship; baking, plowing, haying, threshing; the steady modulation of the days and nights and weathers and seasons across the land. And such images are the chief vocabulary in which the picture's grave eloquence is expressed...
...third man, Jim Kenary, says he "will try to do both." Kenary, last fall's sophomore passing whiz, will attempt to land an outfield berth on the Varsity nine. Presumably, he'll work out on the diamond during early afternoon, and then sprint over to the Cage, where grid drills will be held from 4 to 6 o'clock until after vacation...