Word: lande
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...biggest news in recent years was the closing of the Fort Devens Army base, on the outskirts of town, which formerly housed 6,000 military personnel. On the newly vacant 4,000 acres of land, Gilette Inc., the razor maker, plans a distribution facility, and the Justice Department's Federal Bureau of Prisons will erect a prison hospital--only the second in New England...
...town was founded in 1855 when Elbridge and Mary Ayer, two natives of Harvard, Mass., bought 400 acres here and named the settlement after their hometown. Mr. Ayer later offered free land if the railroads leading to Chicago agreed to make every train stop at Harvard; the town blossomed...
...neighboring town of Princeton, was founded in 1896 by a native of Princeton, Minn. Shortly after, Homer W. Canfield, who owned land nearby, sold his property to the Wyoming, Idaho & Montana Railroad. The railroad wanted to name the new outpost for Canfield, but the declined, mischievously suggesting Harvard as a replacement, according to Keith Petersen, an editor at the Washington State University Press who has studied the region...
...odds are not good, but anyone surviving this semester's several lotteries may land a veritable jackpot...
LITTLE ROCK: Susan McDougal, the Clintons' convicted former business partner, was held in contempt of court Wednesday for refusing to answer questions before the Whitewater grand jury investigating President and Hillary Clinton's land deals. Prosecutors unsuccessfully asked Mrs. McDougal three questions before seeking a contempt charge. Two dealt with whether Clinton knew about a loan and a piece of property in which the Whitewater corporation had an interest, she said. The third, Mrs. McDougal said, asked, "Did William Jefferson Clinton testify truthfully before your trial?" Judge Susan Webber Wright said Mrs. McDougal faces up to 18 months in prison...