Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against his own kinsmen in defense of his adopted country. This was not weakness. His statesmanship gave to Rumania universal suffrage and agrarian reform. As a result of the latter measure the peasants-85 per cent of Rumania's population-today own the greater part of the arable land which formerly belonged to the privileged few. These reforms were not weakness...
...land, the Russian attack was launched at four places. In the northern corridor the objective was Finland's ice-free port of Petsamo. Heavy snow prevented the use of artillery here and Finnish counter-attacks recaptured Petsamo after its seizure. Russian prisoners taken were found to be ill-equipped for zero weather; many had frozen feet. Noncombatant Finns fled into Norway in busses camouflaged with bedsheets, were strafed from the air by Red fliers. Some 800 Finnish troops, equipped with skis, stood off the attack of several thousand Russians, but had orders to retire into Norway when Red reinforcements...
...Those who live near the sea, feed more on fish than on flesh, and often encounter that boisterous element. This renders them more bold and enterprising; this leads them to neglect the confined occupations of the land. They see and converse with a variety of people; their intercourse with mankind becomes extensive. The sea inspires them with a love of traffic, a desire of transporting produce from one place to another . . ." --Crevecoeur...
...That Peary had previously shown himself unreliable by claiming, on Green-TIME, December 4, 1939 land expeditions, discovery of "Peary Channel" and "Crocker Land" which subsequent travelers found were not there at all; that there were many discrepancies in his Pole story, that he contradicted himself many times in verbal testimony...
...glowering sheet lightning, through the smoke of Michigan City and into clean air again, along Lake Michigan behind some of the biggest sand dunes in the world. Carl Sandburg's place is on top of a dune a mile or so from the Harbert post office. On the land side the house is a triple decker, the top deck open and sunny. The front porch looks over ten miles of beach through the crests of some tall pines. Inside it is the kind of house a good workman likes to have for his family...