Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fancy Miami Beach real estate and plan to double the sum.) He announced plans to organize employees of Sears, Roebuck and of Tampa breweries. Then came Jimmy's bombshell: he had already begun a campaign to recruit the millions of state, county and municipal employees across the land-including the police...
...region to conduct agricultural experiments, but Alex Johnson, longtime teacher of vocational education, who retired as Bade County superintendent of schools in 1952, asked for a challenging assignment when he offered his services to the U.S. Point Four program. "I decided," says Johnson, "to come out to a foreign land to do some good for other people." Stationed first in Libya, Johnson was transferred after 26 months to Thailand in March 1955, with his wife Elsie took over as livestock adviser...
...earth. With its sail broadside to the light, it will be pushed farther and farther from the sun in wider and wider orbits. Eventually it will reach the orbits of Mars or the outer planets and can take a look at them. A fragile space sailer could not land on any planet; even a brush with the fringe of an atmosphere would destroy the sail. But it could be maneuvered to approach smaller bodies in space that have no atmosphere...
Might Force Land Acquisition...
Whitlock noted that the University is preparing to build 12-story dormitory buildings so that it will not be "forced to acquire more Cambridge land." Stringent height and bulk restrictions in the new ordinance might drive the University to purchase more property "than we either desire to or than we feel is healthy for the Cambridge community...