How To Use land grant In A Sentence
- Despite a Sportscotland grant for a new full-time coach, the job could be one of the first victims of the cuts.
- Malone's purchase of the Bell ranch marks the transfer of a storied parcel that Pablo Montoya obtained via land grant from the Mexican government in 1824. America's Biggest Landowners
- The princes maintained few paid officials rewarding their administrators with land grants instead. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
- A city of southern California, an industrial suburb of Los Angeles. It is located on part of the first Spanish land grant in the area (784). Population, 80,038.
- The princes maintained few paid officials rewarding their administrators with land grants instead. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
- Most western towns were created by the railroad land grant companies.
- The core group excludes several private colleges and universities as well as some public institutions that produce agronomy and crop science graduates but which are not part of the land grant system.
- The two most appropriate parallels are the government's redemption of "continentals" - paper money issued by the colonies during the Revolutionary War - and the Yazoo land grants. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
- Maxwell land grant case, which he characterizes as a wanton and shameful surrender to the rapacity of monopolists of 1,662,764 acres of the public domain, on which hundreds of poor men had settled in good faith and made valuable improvements. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9
- The prime movers behind conventional agriculture in the United States have been the land grant colleges, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and more recently large agribusiness firms.
