Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proud were four pretty Eastern girls last week. At Hicksville. L. I., they performed the central rites at the opening of the Long Island Aviation Country Club, first of its kind in the U. S. Before several hundred socialites beneath variegated lawn umbrellas, each girl christened a club plane?Bunny, Squirrel, School Marm, Malolo. The girls were Eleanor Hoyt, daughter of Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (see above);* Emily Lawrance, daughter of Charles Lanier Lawrance (see below); Ann McDonnell, daughter of Vice President Edward O. McDonnell of G. M.P. Murphy & Co. (securities); Frances Reaves, daughter of John S. Reaves, chairman...
...Florence. Important has been his discovery of flint instruments, for they tend to prove that Rhodesia was a land of the living in prehistoric as well as medieval times. Last week the Professor reported a particularly exciting discovery? two "Bushman paintings" on rock, one on top of the other. Beneath was a well-dressed Arab. Above was a Bushman ferociously warring with Bantus. It was the first example of superimposed art to be found in Rhodesia. It promised under analysis to help historians to learn what races have crossed Rhodesia and when...
...this feeling that he goes to the trouble of bringing his family back to Cambridge. Just so long as it is present beneath all the superficial glamor and excitement, attendant on his return, the class reunions will remain vital and justified. On the other hand when the time comes when it is the glamor that affords the attraction, and the glamor alone, then the critic will be justified in demanding the abolition of an outworn tradition...
...marble stairway that leads to the damasked Hall of Congregations in the Vatican.* In his pocket was a Bank of Italy check for 750 million lire ($39,225,000) and a certificate for one billion lire ($52,300,000) of Italian State bonds. In the Hall of Congregations, standing beneath an exquisite ivory crucifix, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, hands folded, waited to receive money and bonds and exchange formally with Signer Mussolini the State-&-Church reconciliation treaty signed by them both last February (TIME, Feb. 18). After a brief, courteous exchange of duplicate texts of the treaty, last of diplomatic formalities...
Citizens of Villa Atuel in prosperous wine-growing Mendoza Province awoke one night last week with a great roaring in their ears. Houses fell. The earth swelled and cracked open beneath them. In a few moments the town was completely wiped out, 40 were killed, 100 injured, in the worst earthquake of recent South American times, an earthquake that shook the needle of Harvard's seismograph in New England almost 6,000 miles away, broke submarine telegraph cables off the coast of Norway. The outward focus of the disturbance was a new volcano which had burst like an inflamed...