Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...islands of the hook form a natural line of fine defensive outposts with great stretches of blue water between them and the closest jumping-off places for a European invader: the Azores or the Cape Verde Islands. Thus they are potential operating bases from which the U. S. Fleet and land-based aircraft can range far to sea, spotting and striking at any invader as close to his European base as possible. But while the islands make one of the world's finest strategic assets, they are also great potential liabilities. An enemy with a toe hold...
...Navy vigorously interdicting his supply lines from Europe, setting up such a base would be no cinch. To do so would take a huge fleet which probably would have to get a foothold in South America (preferably on Brazil's jutting coast 1,000 miles from the Cape Verde Islands) before extending himself to the north...
...news of a Fontainebleau art school on Cape...
...meeting is over.) Quakers have little ritual, no ordained priesthood. Their societies are organized simply in Preparative Meetings (one or more congregations), Monthly Meetings (one or more Preparative Meetings), Quarterly Meetings (members from several Monthly Meetings), Yearly Meetings (members from several Quarterly Meetings), General Conferences (numerous Yearly Meetings). At Cape May,N. J., 1,300 U. S. Quakers met last week for their biennial Conference...
Last week serious-minded, serious-mannered Quaker delegates opened their business sessions at Cape May with silent periods of meditation, conducted meetings with as little fuss as they do their worship. Exception: a speech by well-loved Frank Aydelotte (who last month left the presidency of Quaker Swarthmore College to become director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N. J.) discussing Clarence Streit's Federal Union. His listeners applauded Dr. Aydelotte so loudly that other Friends, surprised, left round-table discussions upstairs, hurried to see what was the matter...