Word: lands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having eight crew races and four baseball games. In other words, we are extending to more students the privilege of meeting our rival, Yale. We have been able to accomplish this with the outdoor games because of the splendid facilities which are offered at Soldiers Field, the land behind the new Business School, Jarvis Field and the Boat Houses on the Charles River...
...spouts from his neck like a fountain. I fall into an open belly. I see a man biting his own arm. I see another stagger away holding his front in. We regain our trench. The rats leave our dugout, to fatten on dead and dying in No Man's Land...
...every learned attorney knows, the Statute of Limitations prevents persons from suing for money, for land reclamation, etc., etc., after lapse of a certain number of years (the number differing in various states). "Laches," which may be a defense where the Statute does not apply, means "undue delay in asserting a right, or in claiming or asking for a privilege." In deciding for the Negro Shriners, the venerable justices pointed out that the White Shriners had been guilty of "long and obvious lapses." While Negro Shriners strutted, rejoiced over their victory, White Shriners were also rejoicing-for other reasons. They...
...pleasing increases in amounts of current consumed. Delegates also heard Oklahoman J. F. Owens, head of NELA's publicity, concede that there was "food for thought" in the suggestion that utility propaganda bureaus be discontinued, added, however, that it was vitally important that the "youth of the land" should be allowed to "drink from the running stream of current facts [concerning power and public utilities] rather than from the stagnant pool of wornout ideas, pools poisoned ... by the sophistries of discredited theorists...
When Mexican revolutionists, pursued, scamper across Mexico's northern border they land in Texas. But southbound fugitives emerge in Guatemala, which has a small outlet on the Atlantic, a large coastal line on the Pacific, and a stretch of mountainous country in between. South of Guatemala lies Salvador, which is a comparatively narrow strip of country along the Pacific, big Honduras shutting it off on the Caribbean side. In eastern Guatemala the principal product is bananas. In western Guatemala and throughout Salvador the principal product is coffee. A large percentage of the population of both Guatemala and Salvador...