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Word: landing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish population lives on 5% of the land, is prevented from buying more land even at profiteering rates, although nothing would please the Arabs more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Divide & Rule? | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Settlement. An awkward Latin American wrinkle this year has been the bitter renewal of the eleven-year-old U. S.-Mexican quarrel over agrarian land expropriations. Last week. Secretary Hull released a cordial exchange of notes with Mexican Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay, embodying a settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Wrinkle Remover | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Great Britain stalled for time again last week in deciding what to do about the irresistible force of Zionism that has met the immovable object of Arab nationalism in the blood-stained hills of the Holy Land. Last year a Royal Commission under the late Lord Peel, having duly visited Palestine, taken copious notes, heard both sides' pleas, recommended that the country be partitioned into a Jewish State, an Arab State and a British Corridor. So great was the Arab terrorism that followed the announcement of this plan that last April the British Cabinet sent out another commission under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Divide & Rule? | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...shaver of five, he used to climb on his father's knee after supper and demand a story. Now, these many years later, the first ones he can recollect being told concerned a man who went to a strange country of Little Men. Or sometimes he went to a land of Big People. The man's adventures were all very fascinating and exciting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/15/1938 | See Source »

...author of these stories was a brilliant Irishman born of English parents. Although a high-ranking clergyman, he had no scruples about expressing his opinions in the most vigorous style. He did not like the predatory practices of English land-owners in Ireland. So he penned "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to their Parents or Country" in which he calmly unfolded a grotesque scheme whereby delectable one-year-old youngsters be sold for food--to be "Stewed, Roasted, Baked, or Boiled." He grew tired of the endless predictions of a well-known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/15/1938 | See Source »

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