Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this summer, Warwick M. Tompkins, Skipper of the schooner, intends to materialize an ambition which he has cherished over since he first tied a bowline, and follow the old clipper ship track to San Francisco by way of Cape Horn. Details of the proposed Horn passage were spun last evening by the Skipper aboard his ship in the lower Charles River Basin...
...nine governments, still awaiting ratification by four (France, Portugal, Italy and Spain), the Convention was wangled by sporting Britain. Britain's African territories, colonies and protectorates promptly ratified it, as did Belgium. Thus a new fauna and flora safety zone was created from Egypt to the Cape, along Africa's "all-British backbone," in the Belgian Congo, and the British west coast properties of Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast. Most of the specified animals, however, are restricted to territories controlled by the four non-ratifiers...
From the vicinity of Cape Henry, Va., 3,300 plants were sent to the Herbarium by Ludlow Griscom, research curator in Zoology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Bayard Long, of the Philadelphia Academy of Science, and John M. Fogg of the University of Pennsylvania. Under Professor Fernald's direction the Harvard botanical staff have been collecting extensively in the Virginia coastal region for the past three summers and have obtained about 10,000 specimens...
Thence to a little nap, but not being down long, the phone did ring: "Would you like to skate?" Whereupon I did put on some new flashy breeches and a cape which did make me look like a monk--at least so she did say--and so to Lake Waban. She, being very expert, did lead me a merry chase; and did top off her victory with a most silly remark that, my best form of exercise was "jumping at conclusions". Whereupon I did wash her pretty face in snow and so to tea at The Cabin...
...newspaper office in Manchester, chucked his job after six years to go to the East, traveled 50,000 miles in five years. One of these years he spent quietly, observantly in Japan. Stranded in San Francisco, he shipped aboard a windjammer, worked his 20,000-mile passage around Cape Horn to Liverpool. The World War took him as a private, left him a gassed officer. After the Armistice he went back to journalism. Last Christmas he left Fleet Street for good, went to the country to write more books...