Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most famed of the Norse voyages was that of adventurous young Leif Ericsson ("Leif the Lucky") who started from Norway to Greenland in 1000 A.D., but-according to Historian William Hovgaard-"was driven far to the southwest, and finally made land on the coast of America, probably near Cape Cod. Leif sent out two Scotch runners to explore the country, and these men brought back grapes and some wheat-like grasses." Leif called his new country Vineland. Next year he sailed west again from Greenland, passed "Helluland" (probably Baffin Land), "Markland" (probably Nova Scotia), and came again to Vineland where...
...hear someone relate how he told the boss where to get off. Such wishful yarns are rarely believed but rarely challenged. A number of proletarian romances, realistic enough at first glance, have much the same ring about them. Latest is Cranberry Red, a story laid in a Cape Cod cranberry cannery and the surrounding bogs. The scenery is authentic and picturesque, the language lusty, the story lively. But the author puts too many over on the boss...
...kind this pit did not remain stationary. Usually they move northwestward till they strike the coast of Florida or the Gulf, then turn northeastward, out over the Atlantic. Last week's pit started on this route, swerved northward before it reached the coast of Florida. Off Cape Hatteras it appeared to swing northeastward but its path was blocked because an unusually broad high pressure plateau covered nearly the whole north Atlantic. Following the course of least resistance the pit swept northward into a low-pressure trough-across Long Island, through the heart of New England, into Canada, finally vanishing...
Raging up Narragansett Bay, wind and water struck Providence, short circuiting all power. A 300,000 cu.-ft. gas tank exploded. Short-circuited auto horns set up a doleful din. Towns up Buzzard's Bay and along the Cape Cod Canal were devastated. A steeple in East Bridgewater fell point first through the roof of its own church. At Northfield Seminary a falling chimney killed two girls, injured 20. "Old Ironsides," torn from her moorings in Boston Navy Yard, was badly battered...
Marooned amidst the wreckage of Cape Cod homes for nearly a week while serving with the National Guards, the youths whose military swagger lacked the finesse of their older associates admitted a longing for the leisure of Cambridge life...