Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, however, the produce entries were virtually confined to a single cornucopian assemblage of 17 varieties of vegetables, submitted by a FORTUNE salesman who "farms" an acre or two of land at Oyster Bay, Long Island. There was no shortage of spectators. More of them, including scores of casual passersby, turned up than ever before, and one interested visitor confessed that "this is my third country fair at TIME and I look forward to it every year...
...were a score of issues over which France and Britain might have fought. They were old enemies and current imperial rivals. Yet they did not fight: the French had little chance against British sea power; the British had little interest in destroying the French check on Austrian and Prussian land power. Britain and France were not "ripe...
...Laval started his seminary to train French and Indian priests, the history of the school and of French Canada have been interwoven. Laval was the center of learning in New France. After the British conquest, it continued to educate French-speaking leaders. Money from Bishop de Laval's lands (granted to him by Louis XIV) kept the school going. Laval turned out scholars who kept alive the French culture in the English-governed land...
...Dewey has said. Things such as these: "Our streams should abound with fish," (Denver, Sept. 21); "Everybody that rides in a car or bus uses gasoline and oil," (also in Denver); "You know that your future is still ahead of you," (Phoenix, Sept. 23); and "Ours is a magnificent land--every part of it," (also in Phoenix...
Blood had been spilled between the Armstrongs and Gerrards, and until Daniel Armstrong's day there seemed no likelihood that the feud could end. Then Daniel, by an act of moral renunciation which was the measure of his strength, voluntarily abandoned both his claim to the land and his claim to revenge. To young Kinloch Armstrong this action is simple cowardice. He finds the ultimate proof of the Gerrards' 'original fraud. But then Kinloch, in his turn, is repulsed by the discovery that his own family has been involved in the death of an innocent...