Word: breton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large portions of each day's entries and it is interesting to note that many of the wounds resulted from explosions of the colonists' own cannon, so inexperienced were the militia in handling heavy field pieces. Thanks to the assiduousness of the New England diarists the student of Cape Breton meteorology will find in these journals, a wealth of information on the wind, weather, and rainfall for the duration...
Spitting on their hands, 600 brawny Breton & Norman shipwrights rushed out to the launching ways, took their stations and stood ready to pull the wedges. The stupendous hull (longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall) had been anointed with 43 tons of tallow, two-and-one-half tons of lard and more than a ton of soap. The grease alone cost 150,000 francs...
...painters of this new movement, Joan Miro has been the representative of Surrealisme in this country up to the present, and this is an unfortunate fact, as Miro paints in the manner of the earlier men who were subservient to Freud and the dictates of psychoanalysis. In literature Andre Breton was the theoretician of the school, and Louis Aragon the foremost poet and writer, perhaps the best of the younger French writers today...
Begun in 1924, Surrealisme sprang from a scientific background. Of the three founders of the movement, Breton, Aragon, and Soupault, the first two were physicians and neurological specialists...
...time. But never had it been attempted so far from New York. Mail planes heretofore have left ships off Cape Cod, 600 or 700 mi. from port. The Europa was 1.275 mi. out of New York. Six hours after leaving the steamer the seaplane alighted at Sydney, Cape Breton Island, discharged its Canadian mail, refuelled. Then it flew all night down the coast to Bridgeport. Conn., fuelled again, taxied up to the Europa's Brooklyn pier early in the morning, nearly 28 hr. ahead of the liner. It was the first time that transatlantic mail had beaten its steamer...