Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover special for Brule left Washington on Saturday evening. Newsgatherers joked about some "lively and impressive impromptu ovations" which National Committeeman C. Bascom Slemp had been overheard to say should be arranged at station platforms across the land. When the train reached Baltimore, this sly, Slempish suggestion was proved superfluous. Some 200 quite distinguished Baltimoreans were there with a really spontaneous demonstration. At York, Pa., and Harrisburg it was the same...
Peers of the Realm' were mightily stirred, last week, when the House of Commons sent to the House of Lords a bill providing that county councils "shall be empowered to enter and reduce rabbits upon land adjoining cultivation," if the cultivator shall have complained of damage from the rabbits...
...Finn Malmgren, Swedish meteorologist, injured, with Capts Mariano & Zappi, pilot and navigator, quit Nobile camp, start to walk to land...
Gesturing thus patriotically, Pilgrim Nobile and his crew turned back toward Spitsbergen. Nearly two months later, they were still trying to reach land. The Nobile affair, chronologically...
Tropical fever was meanwhile ravaging French troops, and, Napoleon being engrossed by troubles at home, Toussaint's best general was able to declare independence. Only 13 years before, all the land and 90% of the population was owned by a small oligarchy of whites. Now no white owned land, and all the havocked property passed to ex-slaves. Making himself emperor in the grand manner, Jean Jacques Dessalines governed these ignorants by the universally understood authority of force, but he was murdered for brutal abuse of power. Among his simultaneous successors was black King Christophe, most picturesque of Haitians...