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Word: land (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been married less than ten years, have three healthy, intelligent children, a city home furnished and paid for, a car, and have just bought a country place with 15 acres of land-fishing and swimming available-which should be paid for within five years; and we have done this on less than $5,000 a year (we could have made more but we want time to enjoy the good life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Jewish refugees from Europe were still pouring in and settling on land formerly occupied by Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: No Talk, No Peace | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...appointed him supreme commander of an area about 13 times as big as Texas, mostly wasteland, underdeveloped and underpeopled (about 14 million-one-third Han Chinese, one-third Moslem Chinese, and the remainder Tibetans, Turkis, Mongolians, Kazaks). Ma's elevation put the Northwest on its own. His land was a poor holding in comparison with the lost coastal regions and lush river valleys, but, until conquered, it would be a thorn in the flesh of Communist China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ma v. Marx | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Through all the sound & fury, Candidate Bose remained in Switzerland, rallying his supporters with long-distance statements: "Black-marketeering, profiteering, corruption, favoritism and nepotism stalk the land. There is resort to police terrorism on the slightest pretext. The Congress' name today is mud." Congress was split by petty quarrels, weakened by a 10% rise in food prices during the past year, and harassed by a Communist gang-up with Bose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Cloud | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...their $5¼ million, De Bretteville and friends got assets which they estimate at $10 million. Among them: ¶Half-interest in the Spreckels Sugar Co. with its three California beet-sugar plants (including the nation's largest), and its 14,000 acres of land, most of it in the rich Salinas Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Sugar Plum | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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