Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every state hundreds of physicians, many of them reputable, do give birth control information; and almost every drug store in the land does sell contraceptives...
...House asked Prohibition Commissioner Doran how far his $13,500,000 enforcement allotment would go. "It is a matter of policy," he replied. "If Congress wants to embark in the police business it will take $300,000,000 a year and a system of United States courts covering the land...
...Mothers with good eyesight were sorry that hers is poor. Mothers who have kept the love of their husbands sympathized with the winner because she has been deserted, many times deceived and is now divorced. Mothers who have never had one elder brother banished from his native land, and another killed by a monkey bite recalled that the Gold Medal Mother has endured these blows of Fate...
...upset were the people of Massachusetts that they made a law. The next Quaker to land would get one ear lopped off. If he came back, off with the other ear! If yet again he returned, his tongue was to be pierced by a red-hot iron. These provisions failing, however, to deter the Quakers, presently the gibbet was invoked and four Quakers were hanged, one of them a woman...
Peace in America. From the beginning the Quakers cherished a hope for refuge from their'persecutors in America. Fox was considering the purchase of land from the Indians in 1660. The first large settlements were in New Jersey in 1677-78, and under William Penn in Pennsylvania...