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Word: caped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laden with trade goods and gold, unwarped from Bremen for a year-long westbound voyage to the Orient. Of the 31 souls aboard, five were passengers, among them Charles Lascelles and Madam Anna Bishop, English concert singers of the day. By midwinter Captain Tobias was beating his way around Cape Horn. In January 1866 his anchor dropped in Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. The following months, refurbished and provisioned, the Libelle splashed out of Honolulu with the evening tide, sailed westward into the flaming Hawaiian sunset on the last lap of her 19,000-mile journey to Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wake's Anchor | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...continue in the same vein: ". . . Governor Hurley may have solved our prison problem for us. . . . We may not have to keep anyone in our chain gangs under the conditions he [Hurley] complained about." Informed that chain-gang camps had been placarded with signs saying, "Spend your holiday in Cape Cod," Governor Rivers grinned. He announced that July 27-the day Governor Hurley refused to extradite the escaped convict-would henceforth be "Hurley Day" in Georgia prisons and that "Hurley Day will be observed annually in serving all State prisoners codfish cakes and Boston baked beans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Rivers' Revenge | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...wavering line running in a southwesterly direction from Cape Gracias a Dios on the Caribbean to the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific divides the two Central American Republics of Honduras and Nicaragua. The exact position of this line has been the cause of dispute for many years. Under a treaty signed in 1894, the Government of Spain was called in to arbitrate. The decision awarded in 1906 was rejected by Nicaragua because of "irregularities in procedure." A conference in Washington in 1918 was equally fruitless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Stamp Feud | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

Three grandchildren of Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis-Louis (11), Alice (9), and Frank Gilbert (7) -started on Cape Cod a hectographed newspaper called Chatham Chatter. Price, 1?. Contents of the first issue: by Alice, a tribute to Amelia Earhart; by Frank, "The Slavery Question and How It Changed the United States"; by Grand-editor Louis, editorials. Excerpts: "The modern child grows up with guns surrounding him. Guns to the right of him, guns to the left of him, guns in front of him, volley and thunder. This is one of the main reasons of wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 16, 1937 | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...toughest of "tough cops" in the U. S., according to connoisseurs, is Motorcycle Patrolman John Patrick Connors, whose bailiwick is small, attractive Manchester, Mass. Residents of Cape Ann, among whom the name of Connors is a byword, accuse him of being not only a superfine and arbitrary legalist but a misanthrope who hates automobile drivers. Incorruptible, Policeman Connors has been threatened on at least one occasion by an irate driver with a shotgun, and was once about to be assaulted by a burly victim in the lobby of a motion picture theatre when bystanders intervened. Truck drivers passing through Manchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Automobiles | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

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