Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Land Bank states I am not eligible because I am a "factory"-I cart in raw materials (feed) and cart out the finished produce (eggs). They loan to farms only...
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, Minn., one-time Interim Senator Guy Victor Howard totted up the financial and political rewards of the two months he served in 1936-37. His accomplishments, he said, were to 1) land a couple of WPA projects, 2) help a man get out of jail, 3) get some Congressional Directories and Capitol calendars for friends back home. His rewards: he has enough stationery to last the rest of his natural life; he gets invited out a lot more than he used to be. "For instance," he says, "I now go to two or three funerals a week...
Thomas Stearns Eliot '10, who has since become widely known as an author for his play "Murder in the Cathedral" and such poems as "The Waste Land", "Ash Wednesday", and "Gerontion", was an editor of the Advocate while in College...
...since there is bound to be a difference in the two pictures which meet the eye. For instance, read a novel, say Hardy's "Return of the Native"--with which almost every student comes in contact sooner or later. As you read, you see the picture of the land through Hardy's words, but you build up a picture of your own with your mental eye. Thus, when he describes the opening scene: "A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment...
...Manhattan's Columbia and Cornell medical schools last week, physicians had it brought home to them once again that although Adolf Hitler is impoverishing his own land by driving Jewish brains from Germany, he is steadily enriching U. S. medicine. From Chicago, where he has been an associate professor at the University of Chicago medical school since fleeing Germany in 1934, came Dr. Rudolf Schindler to demonstrate his flexible gastroscope,only instrument which makes possible direct observation of a living stomach...