Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poland Earle stayed at Ambassador Biddle's estate, which was rented from the Polish Ambassador in America, Count Potocki. Just two weeks after he left the estate the Russians entered this district. All the large estates were divided up and the land given to the peasants. Earle was in lots of air-raids. "My most scary moment," he says, "was the night we spent on the 'Washington' at Le Havre before sailing. We noticed that afternoon that about 100 yards from where the boat was lying on the dock, there was a small island with about 100 large oil tanks...
...laurels of the present production of "Out-ward Bound" go to Laurette Taylor and Florence Reed. Of course Sutton Vane's plot gives them ample substance with which to work, but they give it life. It is encouraging to see two actresses, with storehouses of experience behind them, land parts that give them a chance to hit the boards with some real acting, not just sideline mugging. They both make the best of their opportunities, especially Miss Taylor, whose char-woman was one of the best, if not the best, performance of last year's Broadway season...
Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, U. S. N., probably the world's greatest naval theorist and historian, maintained that all great conflicts could be analyzed as struggles between land powers and sea powers. By their fluidity, sea powers always...
...theories of the late great Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan are correct and World War II is one more struggle between sea power and land power, as the War went into its seventh week the fighting continued almost entirely in the sphere where the Allies are proportionately strongest-on water. Within seven days three submarines, three freighters, three passenger ships and a battleship went to the bottom...
...that Marx had been wrong. Instead he formed the Communist Party to lead the working class, not to what it seemed to want but to what Marx had decided it ought to want. And to win the Russian Revolution, Lenin had to diverge from Marxism again by giving property-land-to the peasants...