Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lithuanian flyers Stephan Darius and Stanley Girenas, who flashed across public consciousness so briefly that few people could repeat their names, were nearly forgotten last week when a horrid rumor grew about their crash at Soldin, Germany, near the Polish border. Every one had accepted the theory that their fuel supply had run out while they were trying to complete their flight from New York to Kovno, Lithuania. But a Lithuanian newspaper hinted that the airplane Lithuanica had been downed by a "death ray" aimed from German soil...
...time of 25 hr. 45 min. The slowness of mechanics at Tempelhof Airdrome enraged him. "Damn it, I want to push on," he fumed, and paced the field impatiently for two hours while mechanics turned the cranks of slow fuel-pumps. Off again, Winnie Mae got to the Russian border, was driven by thunderstorms back to Koenigsberg, East Prussia, where Pilot Post grudgingly took five hours sleep, vowing not to shut his eyes again until reaching Alaska. Winnie Mae thundered out of Moscow a half-day ahead of schedule. But an oil leak was causing the robot to misbehave...
...crossed them with colored mice which she bought from the late Abby Lathrop, famed mouse fancier of Granby, Mass., and discovered cancer in a progeny. Professor Slye at once began to concentrate on the inheritance of cancer. Her laboratory now is a three-story, greystone house, at the west border of the University of Chicago campus, at No. 5825 Drexel Boulevard. Down at the corner is the new Lying-In Hospital. Across the street at No. 5822 is a smaller greystone house on the first floor of which she lives with her sister Katherine Alden and her jolly assistant, Edith...
...Billy the Kid, who "briefly ruled a region as large as France because he was faster on the draw than any other man in it"; Elfego Baca, Mexican bravo who got a sheriff's job by standing off a posse of Texan sharpshooters for 36 hours; many another border saint & sinner, hero & villain. Of the Penitentes, pseudo-Christian sect of flagellants, Fergusson tells bloody tales, bloodier rumors. The sect still flourishes (TIME, April 17). Its headquarters are in Mora and most of its membership within New Mexico. In almost every Mexican village, says Fergusson. there is an apparently deserted...
First of the summer operas was Aïda with Anne Roselle and Frederick Jagel of Manhattan's Metropolitan, Giuseppe Martino-Rossi and about 150 other voices on the Dell's 60 ft. stage. Footlights, border lights, electric towers, side spotlights and a "traveling moon" made the shell look to some listeners like an opera-lover's Fourth of July. Philadelphians looked forward to seven more operatic productions including Traviata, Faust, and Rigoletto. Next year. Conductor Smallens promised to have stage facilities adequate for Wagner...