Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uncle, prettied up the 21-month-old baby her husband had not yet seen. In Montreal, Reporter Yves Jasmin, brother of one of Canada's outstanding French-language news editors, had happy news. "I had a letter from Guy," he told friends. "He and mother are expected to land in New York this week." Mrs. Jasmin had been making her first round-trip flight. Before she left, she had told a neighbor that she hoped "if anything was going to happen it would be on the westbound trip, because then she would have seen France...
Silence. Six hours later, at 2:50 a.m., Suzanne's boss, veteran pilot Captain de la Noue, sent a message that soon lost its meaning: "Having accomplished first part of flight normally, ready to land in five minutes at Santa Maria. Weather clear...
Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land...
Until recently scientists knew little more than the nursery rhyme about why the earth has oceans and land, or why most of its high land masses are concentrated on one side, opposite the Pacific Ocean. If the earth condensed from gases or from meteorlike particles, as many theories have held, it should be smooth and symmetrical with a deep layer of water covering the whole surface...
Today the men of Princeton swarm into Cambridge, free from Lenin Lenapes, from mosquitoes, from mossbunkers. Be kind to them as they journey to the land of Hague to the land of Curley, remembering after the game the words of the poet...