Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actually land a job and if so what kind...
...difficult for me to express my gratitude to you for having cast me in the role of Alice in this Wonderland, but certainly I no longer doubt the existence of Americans-even in our land of planned scarcities-since, through your generosity, I met Robert B. Snowdcn Jr. here on his Arkansas plantation...
Under a special agreement concluded in 1928, Harvard annually pays taxes to the City on legally tax-exempt property, amounting in 1931 to $21,816.01 and in 1937 to $7,667.00. On all land acquired after July 1, 1928 which was entitled to legal tax-exemption Harvard, by the agreement, pays annually a sum equivalent to the tax on the unimproved property at the time of purchase...
...agreement provides that for property tentatively acquired by the University on July 1, 1928, but still in litigation on that date, Harvard would pay a portion of the tax decreasing 10 per cent annually. The occasion of this agreement was the acquisition by the University of large pieces of land for the new Houses, and it is to run until 1948. In City Hall yesterday Councilman Toomey was seen running around, cigar in mouth and a copy of the 1928 agreement he completely disregarded in the resolution in his hand...
...whose towering stone cliffs rise perpendicular from the water's edge. San Domingo, perhaps? No, young Columbus, it is on the map as Littauer Center. It is a new island in these parts. It is very long and solid and important-looking. It will be a wonderful place to land for an excursion sometime soon when the hand of man has more fully nurtured its interior. But ahoy! Another smaller island slips over the horizon--a different island, built of smaller reddish stones, with a sign which labels it Hemenway Gym. It has a crow's nest...