Word: landed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Williams, L. S. opened the case for the negative. Ireland, he said, has laws as just as those of England and Scotland. The difficulty in Ireland is not political but economic. At some time, the law question will have to be settled. If the land is to be brought up, England is better able to do it than Ireland is. The Irish members of Parliament have displayed ability in an obstructive rather than a constructive...
...evils of caste government; it is the first step in the dismemberment of the empire. In fact, Mr. Parnell declared at Chicago that this was his ultimate object. Mr. Furber closed his case by denouncing the incapacity of the Irish Parliament of 1782, and the violence of the Land League...
...Resolved, That the system of land taxation advocated by Henry George would be consistent with the best interests of the state...
Then some other people spitefully said that she wasn't the first lady in the land after all; that there was a lady in Florida who should have the precedence in going out to dinner...
...Harvard, the first university in the land, with a library shrouded in Egyptian darkness in the hours when men's brains are liable to be most active, is the disgusted cry we have heard about us for months. Every earnest student feels the painful and unwarranted deeds that is put to his reading hours by the shrill cry, "library closed" at sunset every...