Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peasants. Following Grigori Zinoviev's pledge to grant long leases of land, if not outright ownership, to the peasants (TIME, Apr. 27), the Government further conciliated and attracted the peasantry...
...Stalin, chief of the Communist Party, and a member, with Kamenev and Zinoviev, of the so-called Bolshevik Triumvirate, last week addressed peasants' representatives, promised to grant land leases to the peasants for at least 20 years, perhaps 40 years, perhaps in perpetuity, which means unconditional return to private ownership...
Engaged. Princess Bertha Cantacuzene, great-granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U. S. President, to one Bruce Smith of Louisville...
...buttercup virginity" of the faculty would be more poignant if it could be "decently lyrical." Perhaps this plaint may sting some "mute inglorious Milton" to verse. After all Homer begged his way through seven cities. The vernal note is again struck in a final celebration of James Christopher Grant reading Plato's "Kriton" to the undulations of his rocking chair. When he gets through with the "Crito" he will have to read the "Apology" and there, alas, the Socratic gadfly is waiting...
...axis to a terminal balancing the White House on the south. The site for the Roosevelt Memorial is at the end of this axis; the edifice, when erected, will be this required balance, this terminal. Those who have been invited to submit designs are: Architects William B. Faville, C. Grant La Farge, McKim, Meade & White, Charles Platt, Irving K. Pond, John Russell Pope, Egerton Swartwout, York & Sawyer; Sculptors Herbert Adams, Carl Akeley, James E. Eraser, John Gregory, C. P. Jenne-wein, Lorado Taft; Landscape Experts James L. Greenleaf, Charles N. Lowrie, Frederick Law Olmsted, Ferruccio Vitale...