Word: capricorn
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...rdenas a friend of Labor comparable to President Roosevelt, and declared of the F. L. A. W.: "I think the formation of this organization is one of the most significant events that has happened in a long time with respect to all countries from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer...
...since 1889. when a tidal wave swashed shipping against the wooded mountains, has Apia Harbor. Samoan Islands, been so aghast as last week. Although it was a damp, warm day of Capricorn summer, a breeze rumpled the thick greenery around Apia. At anchor rode the brigantine-rigged wooden yacht Carnegie. Built in 1909 to study all the things that the Carnegie Institute thinks man should know about the sea, the Carnegie was made a unique ship: not an ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard her. Even her 150-h. p. auxiliary motor was built of nonmagnetic stuff...
...occultation by the moon of the star Beta Capricorn will occur on Thanksgiving evening, November 27, at a little after 6 o'clock, according to information given out by the Astronomical laboratory...
...occultation will be plainly visible to the naked eye throughout the eastern part of the United States if the evening is clear, and it will be possible to watch it closely with opera glasses. The Star Beta Capricorn, which is of the third magitude, will be found close to the dark side of the moon shortly after sunset. At the appointed time it will then disappear as it goes behind the moon. Some time later it will reappear on the illuminated side of the moon...