Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the watchful eyes of steel-helmeted police, the world's oldest university began its 1,006th academic year in Cairo last week. The cops were just a precaution in a land hot over the Palestine question: the 11,000 students at Al Azhar ("The Resplendent") University take their politics as seriously as their Moslem faith. It is not just boyish prankishness either; some of the "undergrads" have been going to school for 15 or 20 years...
...Colton Waugh, son of the late famed seascaper, Frederick Waugh, has brushed in the history of the funnies' first half-century. An ex-comic-stripper himself (he succeeded Milton Caniff as penman of Dickie Dare), Waugh has done a notable fact-finding job in charting the never-never land that Richard Outcault discovered...
...Land. Such a performance was an old story to Jesse Clyde Nichols, long-range planner who has expanded a ten-acre plot into the Country Club's 5,000 acres with 10,000 homes and apartments, 17 schools, 15 churches, five golf courses and 50,000 well-heeled residents. Nichols, who has proved himself a top city planner as consultant on scores of real estate developments, holds strong views on city planning and architecture. He habitually forced them on customers and tenants...
Nichols, son of a well-to-do Kansas storekeeper, first learned about neat, compact towns on a trip to Europe. At Harvard he wrote a thesis on the development of raw land. In 1904, with $21,500 put up by farmers, he began to develop raw land himself at Olathe, Kans...
Surrealist Landscapes. A sense of wonder pervaded the journals that Lewis & Clark kept. They expected to find mammoths and perhaps stranger prehistoric creatures. There was said to be a mountain of solid rock salt somewhere along their way, 180 miles long and 45 miles wide. They came into a land where they were shut in by steel-blue mountains, so alike that they seemed to have come into a country of mirrors. Once Meriwether Lewis, exploring alone the Great Falls of the Missouri, found himself studying the water foaming over the high masses of rocks. Below him the Missouri stretched...