Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cringed as another fragment thudded into the ground a scant 100 ft. away. One worker hastened to the spot, found the meteorite too hot to handle. A man near Newburyport saw a fireball with a 15 ft. trail splash into the ocean a half-mile from shore. Over Cape Cod a cloud of smoke which obscured the sun was reported. Elsewhere at least six other meteorites were declared to have fallen in the water or on land. Only meteorite recovered was the Salisbury Beach fragment. When cool enough to pick up it was found to be a pitted, fused...
Around the harbor entrance and out into the great blue expanse which had so long been the home of the sailors, they went. Behind them in the distance, slipped the little, town of Palos from which they had so lately set their sails. To the front lay the Cape, beckoning them to newer worlds. Beyond still farther fell that mystic headland which sailors have come to revere as do Gata, and then, still farther, farther to the East, lay the still silent rock which kept the entrance to their maritime knowledge. Beyond,--beyond that rock few men had ventured...
...story goes that a cartographer, mapping the central peninsula that jutted into Bering Strait from the Russian territory of Alaska, had no identification for the cape on its southern side. He simply made a note there: "? Name." In 1849 an erring draughtsman labeled the place Cape Nome...
...gulch gold was found on the shores of Anvil Creek, a few miles from Cape Nome. Overnight a rip-roaring canvas-and-scantling town sprang up, sheltering, feeding and quenching the notable thirsts of 20,000 miners, gamblers, tradesmen and wenches. Among that gaudy citizenry were such characters as Klondike Kate, Alexander Pantages and Key Pittman, now U. S. Senator from Nevada. By 1900, there was no place like Nome for placer mining. Then, when the beach and tundra had been furrowed of its treasure, Nome languished as a commercial city. Today less than 1,500 people live there. Last...
Conductor Frederick Stock suggested the Pittsfield Festivals and to house them Mrs. Coolidge bought a little Cape Cod church, dismantled it and moved it to South Mountain. She commissioned scores from composers. They would dedicate them to her, give her the manuscripts. In six years her collection and her concerts had such prestige that she decided to build a chamber music hall in Washington, D. C. and to endow the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The hall cost her $94,000, the yearly endowment $25,000.* Washington festivals supplanted the ones in Pittsfield. There was new music...