Word: caped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admittedly undersized amount for levees and spillways from Cape Girardeau, Mo., (near Cairo, Ill.) to Head of the Passes (Baton Rouge...
Nova Pictoris, bright star of a comparatively younger generation, last week startled grave astronomers by unaccountable conduct. In Cape Town it was observed that two stars were shining where Nova Pictoris had shone alone. Discovered in 1925, the star had been behaving in orderly fashion, following the regular pattern of its ancestors: first a mass of fiery brilliant gases, then cooling, contracting, dimming. Recently the La Plata Observatory in Argentina reported strange doings in the nebula of the young star. When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed...
...quest of adventure, two blithe British women took off last week. One, Lady Mary Bailey, with a mad flourish of acrobatics, hopped across Europe on her lonesome way to Cape Town, Africa. The other, the Hon. Elsie Mackay, madcap daughter of James Lyle Mackay, Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver, muffled herself almost beyond recognition and stealthily departed with one-eyed Capt. Walter G. R. Hinch-liffe on the treacherous flight across the Atlantic, Westward...
Lady Mary, champion woman aviator of 1927 by edict of the International League of Aviators, is taking the 6,000-mile trip from London to Cape Town solely for amusement-"to see how far I can go." She is taking her time, flies when she feels like it, even when that means (as it did at Marseilles) landing in a gale. She is flying a small plane, a baby Moth, popular with European amateurs. Near her destination are the gold and diamond mines of her husband...
More than 7,000 miles lie between Paris and Buenos Aires, a rail and boat journey of three weeks, but letters will soon pass from one to the other in ten days. Planes will carry mail from Paris to Toulouse, to Alicante, Tangier, Casablanca, and Dakar on Cape Verde off the coast of Africa. A special boat will carry the mail to the most northeasterly point of Brazil. And there planes will again take up the burden, resuming service to the Argentine, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay. Charge for one letter: circa...