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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last barrier to commercial aviation is that vast body of salt water which the ancient Greeks called Ocean. To conquer it has long been the goal of many nations. First step was taken by Germany in the South Atlantic with her Graf Zeppelin and mail planes refueled by a ship anchored in midocean. Next summer Germany will launch a North Atlantic shuttle for mail & passengers with tne Graf's big sister, Hindenburg (LZ-129), and Pan American Airways will send its giant super-clipper ships experimentally across the Pacific. But by last week it became evident that the first...
...resisting the prickings of the flesh. Investigator Choukas found overwhelming evidence for the stories he had heard about the perverted tastes of these black-bonneted men of God. Nor was he pleased to find that as regards their bodies, their linen, their tableware, the monks subscribed to an ancient aphorism: ''Who is once washed in Christ needs not to wash again." Author Choukas learned it was better to drink Mount Athos wine than Mount Athos water, which brings on an abdominal bloat. Medical care on the holy mountain turned out to consist mainly of the use of relics...
Alfred Grosjean of Pasadena invented a sharp-angled violin, which is tuned three musical steps higher than an ordinary violinand and which he says reproduces the "celestial" or "seraphic" tones of ancient instruments. He calls it a "violaeol," a word made up from violin and aeolian. Miss Violet Sheldon was interested...
Nothing seems to be out of the ordinary for the staff which works with love letters of famous authors, maps of the Maya region, crasures and dim watermarks on ancient manuscripts which can be better seen in the light of mercury lamps, and records of criminal cases which concern Harvard. The largest material handled was a map six feet square which was reduced to 18 inches...
...Musa Dagh on the northern Syrian coast. Here under the leadership of Gabriel Bagradian, a wealthy Armenian who was caught in the maelstrom when he returned to his birthplace after years in Paris, the Armenians resisted deportation and withdrew to the rocky fastness of a plain high upon the ancient mount. For forty days the courageous band held out and fell only after many had been rescued by a French cruiser...