Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scattering of houses along a mile of muddy road-the original river town had long since disappeared and its traces had been erased by plowing. America's farms were small; its citizens tilled a hundred, or thirty, or even five acres of soybeans, cotton or berries in a land where a thousand acres is the measure of a man of substance. But as the sleet swept in across the familiar fields, America was busy, contented and full of hope...
...families of America headed home after the closing hymn, they looked like the people of many another congregation across the land-people with steady faith in themselves and the world in which God had placed them...
Fitzgerald asserted in his suit that he found a buyer prepared to pay $210,000 for the vacant land, but that the University failed to carry the deal through and gave him no compensation for his efforts...
Never before had Santa Claus worked so hard to give U.S. retailers a merry Christmas. Across the land merchants brought him into their towns, "straight from the North Pole," in sleds, cars and by parachute. By last week, it looked as if Santa had been almost done to death...
Alonzo G. Grace, who has just resigned as Director of the Division of Education and Cultural Relations in Germany, recently said, "The United States is known in Europe, at least, as the land of CARE packages and material aid, efficiency, unlimited wealth, and may I add, irrepressible and unhibited tourists. I hope to see the day when we shall send to Europe our finest artists, scholars, symphony orchestras, university shows, choirs, etc. The Yale Glee Club and the Walden String Quartet were worth a hundred public discussions on the democratic ideal and culture...