Word: tracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mount Weather, as the $500,000 abandoned station is called, sits in an 87-acre tract, six miles up a rocky road from Bluemont, Va. Washington, east by southeast, lies 55 miles away over fair dirt roads- an easy journey for the Presidential motor of a Friday afternoon...
While Russia's rich peasants (Kulaki) want to reduce their 1929 acreage, Moscow has planned a vast tract, of 10,000,000 acres, where wheat may be grown abundantly and efficiently. As everyone knows, the world's most efficient wheatgrower is Montana's Thomas D. Campbell (TIME, Jan. 14, 1938), world's "biggest farmer." Most natural, therefore, was Moscow's decision to send a commission to the Campbell farm at Hardin, Mont. There, commissioners heard that the annual Campbell harvest tops 500,000 bushels...
Southward the course of Harvard takes its way. The appearance of the Business School on the south bank of the river has been followed by the purchase by the University of all land between the Learz Anderson and the Western Avenue bridges not already occupied by College buildings. This tract of undeveloped property is a map of what Harvard will be. Those responsible for the new chapel should consider carefully before succumbing to a tradition which thinks of Harvard only in terms of the Harvard Yard without regard to larger appropriateness...
...Pedro, Calif., in 1923. Strikers were imprisoned and when imprisoned they were compelled to stop singing their "wobbly" songs. By sentimentalizing this repression, and by causing his hero, Red Adams, to die in solitary confinement after dreaming dementedly of the scenes of his life, Author Sinclair has concocted a tract which will bring cheers only from those who agree with...
...demands upon the school increased both for instruction and for opportunities for research that plans were again drawn up for a Medical School building on a much larger scale than was necessary to meet the immediate need for larger quarters. These plans called for the acquisition of a tract of land sufficiently large to accommodate the proposed buildings and also to afford space for hospitals to be erected and conducted in close association with the School. Over 26 acres were secured situated in the outskirts of Boston bounded by Francis Street, Huntington Avenue and Longwood Avenue, and extending beyond Vila...