Word: coast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore receive equal doses of education, the founders of American public schools are necessarily constrained to keep scholastic standards down to the level of the lowly, but unfortunately ample, ranks of the barren-witted. And as a result, those students whose mental capacity is greater are virtually invited to coast through their school years on their inherent superiority...
...made a second unsuccessful try to fly from Illinois to Europe by way of the Arctic Ocean (TIME, July 15). Also along as a flyer is S. Alward Cheesman, Canadian pilot. They will attempt to fly the 2,000 miles from Deception Island to Little America, exploring the unknown coast en route. Sir Hubert is a native Australian...
...South Africa, ready to depart with the Discovery, stout wooden ship used by the late Sir Robert Scott, who reached the South Pole (January 1912) one month after the late Roald Amundsen did. Sir Douglas does not intend to visit Commander Byrd. His aim is to explore the Antarctic coast south of Australia and prepossess it for his dominion. Formal and hurried pre occupation is important, for it would vest in Australia rights to fisheries and miner als which later may be found...
...first Manhattan program she gave five new dances and the audience cheered her louder than at the so-called debut a year ago (TIME, Nov. 19). Immediately thereafter she entrained for Buffalo, thence to Rochester. This year she will give some 60 recitals, go as far West as the Coast...
Through the offer of Lieutenant-Colonel H. Z. Landon, the undergraduate committee will be assisted in its tender of hospitality by the Prize Drill Platoon, First Corps of Cadets (211th. Coast Artillery Anti-Aircraft) of Massachusetts. Forty men clad in striking uniforms of white jackets with light blue facings and light blue trousers will compose the troop which will first act in the capacity of official escort to the Governor in the morning program. Following the review upon the Common, the platoon will be dismissed at the Armory, and will reassemble in the Yard in time to assist the Reception...