Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed without a record vote, after two days' debate, a Rivers and Harbors Bill carrying $40,000,000 for improvements after the Gooding amendment to prohibit railways from charging lower rates for long than for short hauls and the Fernald amendment providing for the purchase of the Cape Cod Canal had been defeated. (Went to conference.) ¶ The proposal that the U. S. join the World Court came up and was tucked away again with hardly 100 words spoken...
...Cape Smoke. Since White Cargo has run over 500 performances and has been sued for plagiarism, the necessity of an imitation was obvious. This new African adventure is a good deal louder than White Cargo and a lot funnier. Most of the laughter...
...Daly's students, W. W. Porter 1G. of Denver, Colorado, has prepared a paper on the earthquake of January 7. It will appear shortly in the "Bulletin of the Seismological Society" published by Leland Stanford Jr. University. The paper fixes the center of disturbance of this shock somewhere near Cape Anne...
...American young men to study at Oxford, he set up a greater claim to the gratitude of posterity than he had done by all his brilliant achievement as an empire builder in South Africa: That endowment was a modest beginning. It had nothing of the popular glamor of a Cape to Cairo project, but it was of great significance to the future progress of the world...
...Professor Bailey visited South Africa and carried on astronomical observations on an elevated plateau in the northern and more remote section of Cape Colony, and conducted careful investigations during the next year in regard to the desirability of establishing a station in that region...