Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zoning Board. The Land Authority tackled the job of enforcing a 40-year-old law limiting holdings of real estate by corporations to 500 acres. By the eve of 1948, the Authority had spent $25 million and reclaimed 70,000 acres, mostly from the big sugar companies, in order to establish land cooperatives and subsistence homesteads. (Its costly land-purchase program has now been slowed considerably; the budget allotment for next year...
...lifetime, Nathaniel Hawthorne was known as a novelist, short-story writer, and active Democratic politician; the main event in his political career was his abrupt dismissal from a customshouse job (after charges of dishonesty, incompetence and political corruption), by order of President Zachary Taylor. He was also widely known as the enthusiastic biographer of the inept and unlucky President Franklin Pierce. Hawthorne's praise of his friend Pierce was still ringing in men's ears when Pierce's administration collapsed in fiasco...
...probable batting order: Carduff 2b, Akillian ef, Hickey 3b, Thompson rf. Donolan p, Young ss, Robinson lf, Wise 1b, and Goodman...
...Crimson jayvee heavies also won its race by two lengths, but the runnerup order this time was reversed, BU beating out the Engineers by half a length...
Despite the loss of four featured players for the game, the Rugby club steamrollered a creampuff MIT, squad 28 to 0 Saturday on Soldiers Field. The game was so one-aided that most of the spectators moved to the Tech goal line during the second half in order to better enjoy the passing parade of Harvard tries and conversions...