Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next U. S. A. Cabinet will almost certainly be a Nationalist-Labor coalition headed by the Nationalist leader, General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who, 58 years ago, was born in Cape Colony...
...swift development of Africa's virgin resources promises the shortest cut to restoring natural wealth and prosperity, and reducing the huge War debts. The key to the process lies in communication and transportation. The British apparently expect to open up the continent from north to south by the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad and its feeder lines, while the French have established lines of communication by tractor across the Sahara from Morocco to Timbuctoo in the heart of the continent. No one knows what a thorough exploitation of the continent may mean to the world's trade. Since...
Women Who Give. Far from being, as the title indicates, a story of Society women on the rampage through gilded interiors, this is a straightforward story of Cape Cod fisher folk, presented with a wealth of detail. The foot of the daughter of a lighthouse keeper slips on the rocks. The wealthy father of a young man tries to keep his son from marrying the daughter who made the faux pas, and has him shanghaied. But youth will be served, especially with a storm to help (in bringing a reconciliation. It is a slightly haunting echo of Kingsley...
Coaxing oysters to mate is not so easy as it sounds, chiefly because they are not by nature passionate. To get a Cape Cod oyster to look at a Blue Point is difficult enough, but to tease them into falling in love seems absurd. And when it comes down to imploring a Cape Cod or a Blue Point to notice the existence of the bourgeoise such as the East River family, or the "sidey" Chesapeakes, the task appears wholly ridiculous. Oysters are very snobbish and clannish. A Cape Cod never by any chance received an equally aristocratic Blue Point...
...Passed a bill for the acquisition by the Government, for $11,500,000, of the Cape Cod Canal...