Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon motion of Councilor-at-Large John J. Toomey, the Council passed a resolution asking the College to donate a strip of land on the northwest corner of the Yard which would be used in broadening the junction of Kirkland and Peabody Streets. The strip lies between Kirkland Street and Phillips Brooks House, and Peabody Street and Mower Hall...
Expect to Get Land...
Once again calling upon the University for more cooperation with local officials, the City Council last night unanimously requested the Fellows of Harvard University to hand over to the city a narrow "Polish Corridor" of land...
Victory for the trusts, profiteering from the Civil War, land-grabbing, fancy promotion schemes enabled a host of new millionaires to grab economic control of the country and throw $50,000 parties, but these victories also resulted in the Populists, the Knights of Labor, the Sherman Anti-Trust law, the first Federal income taxes. Further victories for wealth inspired further income taxes, inheritance taxes, soak-the-rich propaganda...
...winter voyage, greenest of a crew of unanimous goldenhearts. Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy, brilliant account. In the best pages of the book Sebastian, lost at sea, rows his dead dory-mate 100 miles to land, his hands frozen to the oars. He and his rescuer, a young woman, are marooned on (and rescued from) a somewhat Melvilleian iceberg which mystically wanders in & out of the tale...