Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then there are the canals. The presence of the major canals are fairly well established by a number of observations. The late Prof. Percival Lowell at his observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., claimed the discovery of as many as 585 canals. Some of these are doubted as optical illusions. These supposed canals were estimated at 30 to 100 miles in width and Prof. Lowell believed them to be belts of irrigated country close to canals. He believed further that they were supplied with water by the melting of the polar caps, and thought he dectected changes in the darkness and color...
Died. Charles ("Chuck") Barrett, 30, famed Cornell all-American quarterback (1914 and 1915); in Tucson, Ariz. A wife and two daughters survive...
...Eight Vice Presidents General were elected for a three-year term: Miss Anne W. Lange, Dallas, Ore.; Mrs. Paul Duane Kitt, Chillicothe, Mo.; Mrs. Logan S. Gillentine, Murfreesboro, Kan.; Miss Amy Gilbert, State Center, Iowa; Mrs. Norval Smith, Warren, Ariz.; Mrs. Edith Scott Magna, Holyoke, Mass.; Mrs. T. W. Spence, Milwaukee...
...Mexican Government, through its embassy here, has requested permission of this Government for the passage of a detachment of the Mexican army, together with the animals and other material which usually accompany such a command, from Naco, Ariz., to some point in Texas, where they will reenter Mexican territory for service in regions in Mexico where American lives and interests are being threatened with grave danger by the forces in revolt against the Mexican . Government...
...MacDougal (no relation to Professor William McDougall, the Oxford-Harvard psychologist), is in charge of desert laboratories at Tucson, Ariz., and Carmel, Calif., for discovering the processes by which plant life takes energy from the air and the sun. He aims to supplement both the food and the fuel supply eventually, by obtaining carbon from the atmosphere without waiting for the slow vegetable process...