Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice the corpse was pushed out to sea and twice returned. Solemn burial was finally held on land when Leo was hauled away and interred by a local resident...
President Roosevelt proclaimed last week that on Oct. 11 the nation would honor Count Casimir Pulaski.* Thus he reminded the world of U. S. sympathy for Poland, turned U. S. eyes towards the 4,000,000 Polish-Americans settled throughout the land...
Gruff old Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land, chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission, barked on the White House steps: "It's a nice idea, but what are you going to do if somebody sticks his nose inside the zone?" If the U. S. Navy, with what help its weak sisters to the South can give, actually throws a line of peace police around the Americas, can the 22 German merchantmen now holed up in Latin American ports return to coastwise trade-lanes, cruise without fear of British men-o'-war? What if British and German raiders meet...
...Enough Land. Over the Middle West, through the Deep South and into Texas, through the corn belt, the wheat belt, the cotton belt, from the potato farms of Maine and Idaho to the orange groves of Florida and California, the 25 kinds of soils in the U. S. gave up their annual products. There were 6,288,648 farms in the country in 1929, with a total acreage of 986,771,016; there were 6,812,350 in 1939, covering 1,054,515,111 of the 1,900,000,000 acres in the U. S. The week the war began...
...necessity, the entire conception of football is changing this year at Dartmouth. The power plays and sustained drives resulting from Coach Earl Idaik's teaching of the past five autumns, will be replaced by flashy, sudden, dangerous thrusts over land and, more likely, through...