Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard debut on Soldiers Field on Oct. 12. The Sophomore football crop at Ann Arbor was far above average last fall, and by 1940 these lads will be shooting for mythical national honors. Year in and year out, the Big Ten produces some of the best football in the land, and in 1940 the rejuvenated Wolves will be as burly as any of their conference rivals...
...logical thing is to reduce rents. This could be most easily done by the University's building of a housing settlement for instructors on the vacant land across the river next to the Business School. At present this land is lying idle; at the same time the University is complaining that it cannot get a large enough return on its investments. If it were to build such a project and to charge rents low enough to minimize the cost to the instructor of educating his children, even were the land not to be tax-free, the University still would...
Meanwhile out on the Charles, the varsity has by no means been taking it easy doing the past raceless week. It has really made progress in smoothing out the boat. With almost perfect catching in the land race, Walt Kernan has improved varsity. Now there is only a question of finishing before the varsity will be able to meet any crew in the East...
After summarizing his two previous lectures in which he pointed out that the prosperity of the West had been due to the increase of the increment value of land, the dean of American newspapermen described the plight they were new in with the reckless era of expansion definitely concluded...
Britain's Singapore base looked impregnable, but rangy, Bible-brandishing Major General Dobbie, its commander, refused to say it was, thought it "probably the most peaceful spot on earth." Almost as open a secret as the 18-inch naval guns dismounted to form land batteries, blabs Traveler Gardner, is the fact that nearly one-sixth of the funds to build the base came from the British sale of opium to addicts, a Government monopoly...