Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Point of View. In Harwich, Mass., a real-estate agent showed a prospect some seaside property, was asked whether the water had much undertow, quickly answered: "Yes, indeed. The finest on Cape...
Gallerygoers noted Kantor's never-failing subtlety of color and texture, his sculpturesque use of form, but most of them preferred the more simply enjoyable Cape Cod sand dunes, big trees and haunted houses of previous Kantor phases...
...backing from the Navy, the expedition has no relation to the Byrd outfit which is already digging in the snowfields. Commander Finn Ronne, for whom the trip is named, will lead his group on their various scientific quests to Palmerland, an area of the Antarctic lying directly south of Cape Horn...
...thousand would-be toreros milled about, practicing footwork and capework (usual cape: a shirt). Finally the first bull appeared, took a look around and lit out after the aficionados. A few, emboldened by rum, turned to meet him. As soon as the bull had dealt with them, he went after another yelling group. Once he got too close, and a hard-pressed torero leaped into a pond convenient for just such an emergency...
According to Leet, the vibrations set up around a house in Cincinnati, for example, due to a hurricane off Cape Hatteras, N. C., would be much greater than those produced by a passing truck or by dynamiting in a quarry only a few miles away...