Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...makes it necessary that every passenger car built today requires . . . straight line stops ... or the car will skid out of control . . . When it comes to curves which slow a car without the use of brakes, the same principle applies, and you are liable to go off the road and land wrapped round a tree or in the ditch. Unavoidable deceleration of a car on a curve with weight out in front results in many fatal accidents...
...wanted his audience (a group of New England manufacturers) to realize, however, that there was no "easy and popular way to armed security." Air power was the primary attack weapon, but in the long run, said Infantryman Bradley, "a war between nations is reduced to one man defending his land while another tries to invade it. Whatever the devastation of his cities and the disorder in his existence, man will not be conquered until you fight him for his life...
They turn up on the Sahara, where all good Legionnaires belong, get lost in that old sandstorm you remember from several other pictures, and wind up in mysterious Atlantis, Maria Montez rules this land with an iron bosom. She kills people right and left and has their bodies encased in metal for an interesting trophy room. Although she ensnares Jean Pierre Aumont, he manages to escape, and then tries to return for no better reason than to follow the "Lost Horizon" plot...
...Land titles often indicated how many trees were on the property Contemporary descriptions in journals and prints gave even more information. Maps of the present sewer system revealed old brooks that used to meander through Harvard Square and are now enclosed by conduits...
Harvard, vintage 1775, will interest viewers. While the gawkers will recognize Massachusetts or Hollis halls, they will be surprised to see apple orchards covering the regions of Sever and Lamont. Boylston st., which football crowds follow to the Stadium, is nothing but a stone causeway across a swamp. The land under Dunster House is a dock for boats, and a pond lies behind Billings & Stover's present location...