Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was appointed a U. S. District judge by Woodrow Wilson in 1916, Martin Thomas Manton of New York, 36, was the youngest Federal judge in the land. Wilson raised him to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals two years later, and he survived to become one of its senior members...
...concession was announced by the State Department which said that Britain, by inference, had granted permission for American airliners to land in England, a right which had been denied heretofore because the United States refuses to allow British around-the-world planes to land at Hawaii...
...Eliot was still on the staff of a London bank, The Criterion was expensive (7s. 6d -$1.75), highbrow, never attained a wide circulation (900). Yet its influence unquestionably exceeded that of any other English literary journal. Its first issue printed T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, probably the most influential modern poem. It was the first English periodical to publish the work of Marcel Proust, Paul Valery, Jean Cocteau, many another since-famed major European writer. The list of its contributors-James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats. Robert Graves...
Once every few months, and always for the summer, Elizabeth Bowen goes to Bowen's Court, County Cork, Ireland, an enormous, 18th-Century grey stone house, on land given to her ancestor, a Welsh Captain Bowen, by Cromwell. She inherited it in 1931. Despite its lack of electricity and plumbing, she likes it better than any place on earth...
...present Administration is to be commended for a number of steps, including its vigorous attack on soil erosion, its intensive efforts to develop a constructive land policy, and its courageous attempts to open up international trade through reciprocal treaties