Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flying wives of Sir Abe (diamonds) Bailey, 64, and Sir James (coal & iron) Heath, 77, were on the ground last week...
...Lady Bailey, 39, landed her plane at Croydon airport, near London. She had been on-the-way from Cape Town, South Africa, since May 12. Trouble in the jungle and with stubborn British colonial officials, she said. But nonetheless Lady Bailey tossed off her helmet proudly; she had completed a round trip of 18,000 miles, something her rival, Lady Heath, had never done; furthermore, she had beaten Lady Heath in that strange shuttle race of last spring...
...within the mighty pressure of the rind. At times the central heat melts spots in the rind; asthenoliths or blisters result 30 to 600 miles below Earth's surface. The asthenoliths may be hundreds of miles wide, 10 to 20 miles thick. So theorized Leland Stanford's Bailey Willis...
Geologist Bailey Willis, 71, of Stanford, who was to talk through his swaggering mustache and beard on "Continental Genesis." He knows seismology, has predicted bad earthquakes in Southern California. But his reputation rests more securely on his explanation of the stratigraphy, structural geology and physiography of North America, Europe and Asia as the record of continental developments...
Astronomer Harlow Shapley, 43, of Harvard. This autumn he created his popular fame by repeatedly giving talks on stellar organizations. As the complement to the Association's initial lecture (Professor Bailey's "Continental Genesis") President Henry Fairfield Osborn of the Association appointed Professor Shapley to give the final lecture. Professor Shapley entitled his paper "Galaxies of Galaxies-a new study of the super-organization of the Milky...