Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Luther Burbank's home and gardens are at Santa Rosa, about 40 miles north of San Francisco Bay...
...days to visit Mayan cities unknown to modern history-Xkaret, Paalmul. Chakalal, Actuo, Acomal. Four or five miles apart, they were each discoverable by a small temple seen from the sea, and might be approached in a launch by a creek or canal leading to a lake, lagoon or bay. These cities were on the trade route between northern Yucatan and Mayan centres in lower Central America, particularly Guatemala. Like Dr. Gann, the Mason-Spinden expedition found some of the ancient shrines still in use by Indian hunters and chicle* workers, who mingle Catholic and Mayan rites in their worship...
Cutting across the north seas the S. S. Chantier, bearing Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd and his 45 other Polar pilgrims with their two planes and accessory equipment, approached Tromso, Norway, last week. They planned to proceed to Kings Bay, Spitzbergen...
...Kings Bay they will erect for themselves temporary houses, the walls of which will be fortified with "Celotex." This Celotex is a synthetic wood made by the Celotex Co. of New Orleans by shredding sugar-cane residue remaining after the sugar has been abstracted. The shredded cane produces a fibre which is compressed into sheets of sythetic lumber, just as in the lumber regions sawmill wastes are machined and compressed to produce the well known wallboards and sheathings...
They appreciate also another quality found in "Celotex." the quality that induced the Polar pilgrims to take it along to build their temporary homes at Kings Bay and even to line their ship quarters with it-its high insulating index. That this boarding synthesized from sugar-cane waste also deadens sound was immaterial to them. What they valued most was that it would keep out cold-cold which they expected would reach 50° to 60° below zero during part of their journey towards the Pole, and that it would keep within doors heat adequate for comfort. They might...