Word: arc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beebe. From the Galapagos Islands, Explorer William Beebe (TiME, Apr. 27) gave notice that he was returning to Panama for coal, water and ammonia for his ship, the Arc turns. He had discovered a new island and named it after Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History. He had caught, among other curious denizens of the deep, a fish with long, jointed, lighted rods issuing from its head...
After lunch, the King drove up the Champs Élysées, lined with thousands of people who cheered lustily and shouted Vive Georges Cinq, and placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier which lies under the Arc de Triomphe...
Field Marshal von Hindenburg is the first German to be elected President on a popular vote, for the late President Ebert was appointed by the Weimar Assembly, the constituent body which framed the Republican Constitution. The election of the Field Marshal means that roughly 48% of the German people arc in favor of a Monarchy (for whatever vaporings have appeared in the press, the essential issue was Monarchy vs. Republic, although there is no question of an immediate restoration of the Hohenzollerns). About 45% of the people remain attached to the Republican régime, although the Catholics, forming about...
...These arc the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
Days passed without word from the good ship Arc turns, bearing Scientist William Beebe and 48 companions on an exploration of the deep sea (TIME, Feb. 16, Mar. 9, 16, 30). The Arcturus had traversed the Caribbean, threaded the Panama Canal, headed down for the Humboldt Current off the coast of Ecuador. A week passed, ten days, eleven. On the twelfth day, the U. S. Naval Commandant at Balboa, Panama, notified the Navy Department at Washington that two unnamed ships had relayed to him by air some intelligence from the Arcturus. Next day, the ship reported direct to Washington, stating...