Word: landed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...things, and remember that the Sioux are a people who in years gone by were wont to roam from Kansas to Canada, and from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, can we wonder at their restlessness? By the recent action of Congress in depriving this tribe of half their land, 11,000,000 acres, this restlessness was changed into dissatisfaction, a dissatisfaction which caused them continually to brood over their wrongs, having no work to occupy their time. And history tells us what happens when idle people brood over their wrongs-uprisings and out-breaks are inevitable...
Storehouse, 99 Boylston Street; stable and land, corner of Murray and Boylston Streets...
Twenty-eighth: I give and bequeath to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars upon the trust and the uses following. that is to say, that the said corporation shall without unreasonable delay erect upon land belonging or to belong to it in a suitable and desirable situation an Art Museum to be called and known as the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum of Harvard College, to be a fire proof structure of ornamental and appropriate architecture to be used for the collection and exhibition of works of art of every...
...Home Rule, 31. 39.-c. Coercion is a failure: John Boyle O'Reilly in North American Review, May. 1882; Lord Thring in Handbook of Home Rule, 67, 202. 203; Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 262 pp. 508-509.-d. Refusal to grant Home Rule is dangerous.-e. Balfour's land bill not a solution to the problem; Julian Sturgis in Forum, IV. 657; Grey in Nineteenth Century, July 1890; Ireland's Alternatives in Handbook of Home Rule...
...Home rule cannot satisfactorily settle the essential difficulties of the land question: Fortnightly Review. XLV, 273. LIII, 177. a. The British government being bound in honor to protect the landlords could not allow a hostile Irish parliament to settle the question; Fortnightly XLV. 861; Edinburgh Review. CLIV, 291. b. An Irish parliament would only temporarily settle the question: Dublin University Magazine. LXX, 116; Contemporary Review, XLIX...