Word: breton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempted talking from Cornwall to Newfoundland-with success on the very first trial. (This feat bore out my old contention, assailed by many, that the curvature of the earth would not impede the progress of electric waves.) The following year saw the extension of transatlantic communication to Capes Breton and Cod from Cornwall and I noted, for the first time, the now familiar 'night effect' (greater clarity of signals and greater range by night than...
...double series of young people's concerts Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Out of town appearances will be in New York (10), Baltimore (5), Washington (3), Indianapolis, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland. Among the soloists will be Moriz Rosenthai, Sergei Rachmaninov, Clara Haskil, Walter Gieseking, Efrem Zimbalist, Ruth Breton, Maurice Marechal, Lauritz Melchior...
...Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokolov, conductor, will give 65 concerts beginning Oct. 21. Among the soloists will be Elsa Alsen, Alfred Cortot, Lucrezia Bori, Ruth Breton, John Charles Thomas, Respighi, Josef Szigeti, Dusolina Giannini, Efrem Zimbalist, Harold Bauer...
Boston, Halifax, Cape Breton, Cape Bonavista, Cape Clear (Ireland), Cornwall, Cherbourg, LeHavre, Paris. The ship will probably be started with all three motors roaring, a special carriage being necessary to help her off the ground. (This will be dropped en route, ordinary wheels serving for the Paris landing.) As fuel is used up, one motor will be cut out, then another, leaving two reserve motors for the end of the flight. The average speed will be 110 m.p.h.; estimated flying time, New York-to-Paris, 35 hrs. All the past week, U. S. weather men have been mapping Atlantic...
Nine years ago, an anxious group of these same Bretons of St. Nazaire strained their eyes toward the sea to catch the first glimpse of the liner that was bringing the vanguard of American troops to France. Last week, with French and American warships roaring salutes, with Breton peasants waving American flags, with General Pershing, Admiral Gleaves, Ambassador Herrick, and General Gouraud looking on, the canvas was lifted from Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's* inspired masterpiece. The statue stands 300 ft. out in the harbor on a 70-ft. masonry pillar. The eagle has a tensile wingspread...