Word: tracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Generously they responded to the request, pledged $500,000, bought a 100-acre tract for a campus...
...only that, but the time came when the Congress of the United States compensated Lafayette; and I have upon my desk now the statue which we enacted paying him for his services and deeding to him a large tract of land. The United States met every obligation and she did not plead at that time, as it is pleaded now, that the war was fought upon her territory and therefore we should not pay the debt. She did not plead that France came into the war late, after the battle of Saratoga, and, therefore, we should not pay the debt...
...from the Indians, and selling them in Europe at large profits. Later, when Canada began to be settled, the Company took to selling parts of its enormous land holdings to colonists. In 1871 it surrendered its governmental powers, and continued as a commercial concern purely, still owning a huge tract of land in Canada...
...overhang, tails droop decorously down. Ingeniously, out of a wide scholarship, Author Heard traces the homologous development of caps and cathedrals, mitres and mosques-15,000 years in a book of 150 pages that scholars will find an interesting tour-de-force, men of letters a most scholarly little tract. And the end? Clothes, like the appendix, are a useless relic of evolution. For modesty, for protection, for display, we dress. These purposes are outworn. The new man will be naked as Heaven's cherubim; he will build towers to which the Spire of Salisbury were but a wand...
...line dipped south in favor of Turkey; three times it bulged north in favor of Irak, whose mandatory guardian is Britain. The British received most territory; and the concessions granted to Turkey were regarded as useless. Turkey, however, won a big point; for she established her right over a tract of land that Britain had emphatically labeled "No Man's Land...