Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Flashing with occasional interludes of traditional Vikings at sea, these five novels chronicle mostly the Vikings on land with their women and priests, their passions and prickly consciences. Rich in detail of 14th century manners and morals, the books are in the best tradition of magnificent historical novel, but in their universality they reflect the sum of human drama...
...very determined little Virginian will board the White Star liner Calgaric bound for the Mediterranean, for the Holy Land. He will be dressed in the black cloth of the clergy. Undoubtedly newsphotographers will snap his picture, reporters take down his parting words. In one of his suitcases will be a parchment scroll hailing him as the most significant U. S. contributor to religious progress for 1928. He is Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
...that customs men must be assigned to inspect the incoming planes. Otherwise smuggling on a large scale threatened (TIME, Jan. 21). Businessmen learned his intention and at once their chambers of commerce besieged the Treasury Department. They wanted their communities designated air ports of entry where foreign planes must land for a customs declaration. Mr. Mellon received some 60 strident demands. But he closed his ears and hardened his heart. The only air ports of entry, he decided last week, would be for the present San Diego, Seattle, Los Angeles, Miami, Key West, Albany, and-more academic than immediately necessary...
...great social changes of the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to profound political transformations. The industrial revolution radically upset the economic system and established industrial and commercial capital side by side with wealth in land. This in turn involved the decline of the old feudal aristocracy and the rise of a middle class. It was but natural that this natural class, as it became influential should desire some voice in the affairs of government. In time it evolved a political theory known as liberalism and based on the principles of individualism, liberty and free competition. In the countries...
...shrewd business man, an analytic bookkeeper, and the most consistent buyer of real estate in the country. During the Revolutionary War, when his brother-in-law. Fielding Lewis, went bankrupt making guns for the Continental Army, Washington stayed prosperous because of the rise in the value of the land he had previously purchased. He kept all his business records and we possess most of them today...