Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidate Smith was praised on the East coast by President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University, who called him a "high type." Candidate Smith was praised on the West coast by Novelist Gertrude Atherton, great grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, who, addressing her fellow Californians before the crucial May Day primary, said: "Smith is the only man who has any human appeal. . . . He is a man. He is open-minded and openhanded. He stirs the affections. He is honest and direct. He is no humbug professing all things and practicing nothing. Vote the humbugs down. Women want real men to represent...
...would hear about it. They locked her up in a boarding house until the father came. Meantime, Commander Cobb sent a radio to Rear Admiral Frank H. Clark, commanding the destroyer force of the Scouting Fleet. Commander Clark and his ships had just left New Orleans, bound for Atlantic Coast ports...
These fellowships are in the field of Anthropology, Economics, Human Geography, Political Science, Law, Phychology, Sociology, and History. Fourteen universities, from coast to coast, are represented by the Fellows selected, and the latter will gather their material from all parts of the globe. A geographer will study rural communities in Japan: an anthropologist will investigate the problem of adolescent and child psychology in A South Sea island another the adjustment of Individuals to society in a Pueblo village, a third anthropologist the background of Chicago immigrants in Steily: a political scientist will study the problem of contemporary political leadership...
Galapagos Islands (private recreation). Off the equatorial west coast of South America lie the Galapagos Islands, longtime home of quaint fowl and ancient reptiles, onetime base of buccaneer expeditions. Now Ecuador owns and the U. S. explores them. Most recent pryers about the islands have been William K. Vanderbilt II and his wife, trapping sapphire-eyed cormorants, penguins pompous as bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly. Such catch Mr. Vanderbilt carried on his yacht Ara to Miami, Fla., where on an off-shore island he maintains his private aquarium and tropical bird reservation...
Later in the summer the expedition will go along the Arctic coast of Siberia, hunting for live and mummified animals, birds, fish...