Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English colonization movement." On May 8, 1587 Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched from England in three vessels 150 colonists, including 25 women and children, under the command of Capt. John White. With him Capt. White took his daughter Eleanor and her husband Ananias Dare. The ships made land at Cape Hatteras on July 22, cruised up what is now Pamlico Sound to the "iland called Roanoac" where the colonists were dumped ashore. Two vessels immediately spread sail for England. A fort was built, homes staked out. On Aug. 18 Eleanor Dare bore a daughter who was named Virginia after the Raleigh...
...BRASS HAT IN NO MAN'S LAND? Brig.-Gen. F. P. Crozier?Cape & Smith...
Yachtsmen, debutantes, landscape painters and batik dyers who summer on Cape Cod motored over to Dennis, Mass, last week for the opening of "The Cinema." Cape Cod's latest, most up to date playhouse, designed by Alfred Easton Poor, Manhattan architect. All eyes sought the ceiling which displayed the first mural painting ever undertaken by bald, busy, noteworthy Artist Rockwell Kent. Not only is "The Cinema's" ceiling the first Kent mural, but the theatre's proprietors declare that it is the largest single canvas in the world-6,400 sq. ft. in area, almost three times...
Swart little Cubans who live between Cape Guancs and Cape Hicacos assembled on the shore of Matanzas Bay (60 mi. east of Havana) last week to behold a marvelous sight. Floating straight from shore toward the Gulf Stream, more than five feet in diameter and more than one mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water...
Glorious Failure. The four men in the Southern Cross strained eyes and ears. Surely they should have sighted Cape Race by this time. Surely an intelligible radio bearing should come to guide them Major Charles Kingsford-Smith scowled at the grey fog outside his cockpit, cursed the compasses that pointed crazily to East and West. Beside him stolid Dutch Evert Van Dyk held the controls, stared straight ahead. In the cabin behind him Radioman John Stannage frantically worked key and dials. Navigator J. Patrick Saul searched in vain for a patch of sky that he might fix his sextant...