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Word: capes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being no sand banks, and all its innumerable harbors having deep water. Sir William MacGreggor and I collected speciments of its flora and sent them to Kew, England, for a report on their ability to support reindeer; the report was absolutely favorable. Everyone who knows Labrador, knows that from Cape Chidley itself, even on the Island, to the most southern boundary of Labrador on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, caribou, which are the same as reindeer, not only have been able to support themselves in immense numbers but even in spite of man and his modern equipment of destruction, there...

Author: By W. T. Grenfell m.d., | Title: REINDEER RAISING CAN BE PAYING PROPOSITION | 3/15/1923 | See Source »

Rheinold Mory, sculptor: " I designed a statue of a nude Venus for a public fountain in a suburb of Atlantic City, but the city council would not accept it. So I clothed her in a one-piece bathing suit and hung and draped a cape over her left arm, and the council accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Mar. 10, 1923 | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

...competition was a problem in landscape design. The competitors were furnished with a topographic map representing a location in Sandwich, Mass., on Cape Cod, and were asked to design a tea-house lay-out, with tea-terrace, garden in the New England Colonial manner, boat landing, and other arrangements calculated for the pleasure and accommodation of patrons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT WINS FIRST PRIZE IN LANDSCAPE DESIGN | 1/16/1923 | See Source »

Tugurt-to-Timbuctoo may never become as famous as Berlin-to-Bagdad, or even Cape-to-Cairo, but it has justified itself in the eyes of the press, if only because it has provided the headline: "Caterpillars Conquer Camel Caravan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TANKS IN THE SAHARA | 1/11/1923 | See Source »

...competition 36 design have been submitted for a summer tea room to be located, presumably, on Cape Coal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JURY TO DECIDE WINNER OF TOPLARIAN TROPHY CHOSEN | 1/9/1923 | See Source »

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