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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a pouting lip, the promontory of Northeast Foreland juts from Greenland's poleward face into the Arctic Ocean. Across a 300-mi. gap of ice-choked water lies the intricately indented coast of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). Down between them, on maps, runs a frizzy line enclosing a white blob which cartographers have labeled "unexplored." Reports received in Copenhagen last week indicated the frizzy line would have to be changed. Just inside it, Dr. Lauge Koch, Danish scientist-explorer, had found a chain of mountainous islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Greenland Elaborated | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...passerby that night last week had seen a strange apparition on the side of a building. Devoutly he fell to his knees. Another, thinking he had fainted, ran to his side, knelt also as he saw the flickering blob of grey light. It was the Holy Virgin and Child! Crowds gathered in front of the building, swarmed into the yard of a Dr. J. J. Stoll, trampled his flowerbed and broke down his fence. They climbed on the roof of his garage; it caved in but they did not care, so exciting was the miracle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Apparition | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

Spreading a blob of mortar with a silver trowel, tapping lightly a great block of white limestone, Mrs. Herbert Hoover announced last week: "On behalf of the National Women's Committee of the Washington Cathedral, I declare that the first stone of the North Porch is duly and truly laid. May God bless and prosper the work of our hands upon us." The North Porch thus consecrated is the gift of U. S. womanhood to the nation's Westminster Abbey: the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, abuilding these many years on Mt. St. Alban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: North Porch Begun | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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