Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiny craft's three 500 h.p. motors opened wide, disappeared toward Spithead in a choppy sea at 44 knots with cascades of spray bursting over his eager head. Twisting and turning at terrific speed among the breakers, Flea Boat No. 1 overhauled the destroyer H. M. S. Amazon which was doing her best to dodge, fired at deadly close range a dummy torpedo and saw it crash against the Amazon's side for a direct...
...free public lecture on "The Amazon Basin" will be given by Professor Walter II. Haas, of Northwestern University, at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, Divinity Avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock...
...yarn, then clamped it back more confusingly than ever. In a Paramaribo newspaper appeared the tale of one Alfred Harred, newshawk and alleged member of an expedition to determine the boundary of British Guiana: "Art Williams, two Indians and I took off, landed on a tributary of the main Amazon . . . started to trek across the Tumuc-Humac Mountains. . . . After several days we came to a village where all Indians were completely nude. We saw an airplane caught in the branches of a big tree. A few hours later we met Redfern. He was dressed in a ragged singlet and underpants...
...lecture on "Explorations in the Amazon Basin" will be given by Alexander H. Rice '94, Director of the Institute of Geographical Exploration, at the Institute on Divinity this afternoon at 3 o'clock...
...went on. When they finally sighted the first outpost huts of rubber-gatherers, the dauntless Rough Rider was prostrate in the bottom of a covered canoe with a bad abscess of the knee. He found that his river flowed into the Madeira, which in turn flowed into the Amazon...