Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while the Commission firmly turned its course away from Prohibition, the Wet and Dry letter-writers of the land turned eagerly toward it. At the Commission's offices at the Department of Justice arrived sack after sack of mail, bursting with suggestions as to how the Commission could best treat this subject...
...years, it has at the close of this 20-year period an endowment and income from tuition sufficient to insure the operation of the School without deficit, and, in the George F. Baker Foundation, a physical equipment probably excelled by no university department in its adjustment of buildings and land to educational needs. These resources could not have been attained, however, had it not been for the success with which its educational and scientific work has been carried on. In its total picture the Faculty may well be pleased with the past, and it looks forward with confidence and enthusiasm...
...novel, The King Who Was a King is thus unconventional in form. The fact that it is the author's description of a possible film, gives the story an effect less real than it would have on the screen. Paul's dream of ultramodern warfare on land, sea and air, with poison gas, liquid fire, mob massacre, would make Hollywood producers tremble not only at the moral shock this might cause on the box-office front, but in itself would necessitate the hire of air fleets and duels, a Cathedral and High Mass, hordes of soldiers, five tanks...
...Everything was in readiness for the grand three-day second funeral of China's first president, Dr. Sun. To build this impressive approach, eight contractors were allotted mile sec tions each. Soldiers were put to work as laborers. The eight contractors ruthlessly tore down peasants' houses, appropriated land. Intent on honoring simple democratic Dr. Sun, they paid little attention to each other. When the eight single miles of road were finished they failed to connect, some sections by as much as ten feet. Despite the fact that 108 of the Chinese peasants that Sun Yat-sen had lived...
Leading them through the trying days had been Joseph N. Weber, their president, captain, champion, advisor. But even "Joe" Weber had been unable to offer any sure-fire suggestion for a way to combat the "menace" of machine-made music in the cinema houses of the land. Even "Joe" Weber seemed to see nothing but musical doom, and the one resolution which was issued for publication after the secret meetings contained nothing more cheerful than pride, nothing more tangible than a prediction...