Word: amazone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sopwith, it is said, doubted this direction, for a study of his speedowave chartabambam (correct) and a quick glance at the dog star, the North star and the Paramount star, convinced him that such a course could land him only in the head waters of the Amazon...
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...nondescript structure of rustic thatch pitched amid jungle creepers on the upper reaches of South America's great, turgid Amazon the authority and prestige of the League of Nations have been held higher than anywhere else on earth for exactly one year...
...typewriter for Caroline Decker, the tiny little labor agitator who is doing what no big A. F. of L. leader has ever dared undertake: to organize the migratory workers of the lovely orchards and vegetable ranches of California. You remember her? She is the so-called amazon who led the workers in their well-led strikes for a living wage in the valleys last year. She has to carry on the same struggle this year, and next year, and the next. She thinks she can make consumers, citizens and human beings out of these peon producers. An audacious experiment...
...that the crisply professional wireless messages from the plane had been tapped out by her daughter.* From Natal, Brazil, where they had ended their 1,875-mi. hop from West Africa, Mrs. Morrow's adventurous children flew up the Brazilian coast to Para, thence 900 mi. up the Amazon above lush jungle to Manaos. They proposed to be home in time to spend Christmas with their son Jon whom they had not seen since they left the U. S. last July...