Word: landed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Happy-go-lucky Americanism always has been speculative, but seldom a security investor. Here and there is the home owner. Overtopping him by a vast majority has been the renting wage-worker, the spender, the taker of chances and the come-easy-go-easy type of citizen. In a land of abundance, frugality and thrift have held their places only spasmodically and among the minority...
...present the library contains many copies of all the important regulations issued by the War Department, including such books as the "Engineers' Field Manual," "Rules of Land Warfare," and "Landscape Sketching." A number of detailed maps of the western front are now on exhibition. There are also plans of the latest bombs and hand grenades and a collection of photographs illustrating trench life and warfare. F. W. C. Hersey '99, of the Department of English, is in charge of the library...
...understood that smaller tracts of land are also available for the camp, although it would be advantageous to have all the buildings together on the Common, thus forming a unit with the present quarters of the school...
...greatest thriller of the season is a brief scene in the front-line trench when companies of American and British soldiers climb over the top and fall in behind a wicked-looking tank that sweeps out across No Man's Land. It looks, sounds and smells like the real thing, and, as they say of circus features, is alone worth the price of admission...
...fellows didn't redress in time and ran into one of the balloons. It burst and spread out on his wires, making a great sail, which started to turn his machine and all the controls on the opposite side would barely hold the machine straight. He had to land with the wind and turned over, but did not get hurt...