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Word: caped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided to make his Columbus holiday different from just another day off from classes. Heading for Gloucester early in the morning he boarded his trim sloop and swung rapidly around the jetty on Eastern Point, laying a course for the whistling buoy off Thatcher Island on the tip of Cape Ann. Soon wisps of fog rolled in on the heels of a fresh southerly breeze, and he checked his position before losing all sight of the surrounding waters. Miraculously the fog blew away in a few minutes, and he saw the twin towers of lighthouses that stand on Thatcher Island...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/15/1937 | See Source »

...Government's policeman of Wall Street, SEC has lately mellowed enough to be regarded with complacence, almost respect, even by brokers. But fortnight ago Bill Douglas actually was promoted to SEChairman. Last week, therefore, when he returned from vacation on Cape Cod to take over his new job in Washington, all Wall Street wondered whether the Policeman's Billy would not soon be whacking out stringent new reforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bill and Billy | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...from that top-notch teaching berth since 1934 to assist the SEC, he has been a commissioner since January 1936. Upon his election to chairman by his fellow commissioners last week he hustled to Washington for a brief conference, then hustled back to his vacation home near Chatham on Cape Cod to rusticate until this week when he will actually take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Douglas Up | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Langrock's new store, planned in the form of a Cape Cod cottage, was designed to meet the trend of University building which is moving toward the Charles. It is also announced that the personnel of the new branch will include men from the present main store near the University Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Langrock's New Branch Will Open Tuesday at 24 Holyoke | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

This summer, Christian W. Feigenspan, brewer of Newark's Pride of the Nation Beer, sponsored seven prizes for Eastern saltwater anglers. The first six were run-of-the-mine $250 and $100 prizes for largest fish caught between Montauk Point and Cape May. The seventh, which appeared to be a jest, was $100 for the smallest tuna under five pounds caught anywhere along the Atlantic Coast. Actually, the very serious object of the prize was to find a clue to the long-sought breeding places of tuna. All entries were to be sent to the Federal Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Feigenspan Fish | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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