Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atrocity-of-the-Week was reported from the north coast of Spain where mixed Anarchist-Basque-Red forces were still holding Bilbao (TIME, Sept. 21). Indignant at White air bombing of the city, Anarchist Militiawomen swarmed onto one of the three "prison ships" in the harbor aboard which White hostages were kept. Flying at these unarmed prisoners with knives, bayonets, and guns, the lady Anarchists killed a total of 220 of whom 30 were priests, mutilating and gashing until finally stopped by the intervention of Spanish Civil Guards. Theoretically these Guards were as much against the Whites as were...
...shallow river among sunburnt hills, discovered a village of unpromising heathens, named it for the feast day of Our Lady of the Angels and pushed on. Few years later the glory of God was attested by Franciscan missions in these towns and for 1,000 miles along the Pacific Coast. The mission of San Gabriel Arcangel out side Los Angeles grew the first wine grapes and oranges ever seen in California...
During the War Dr. Charcot commanded a submarine chaser, won the Croix de Guerre and Britain's D. S. C. Afterward he turned to Earth's other Pole, took the Pourqnoi Pas on seven trips to Greenland, exploring the coast, sounding the bottom, studying Eskimo folklore. In 1928 the sturdy old man in his sturdy old ship searched long & hard for his lost colleague, Roald Amundsen. By this time he had presented the Pourquoi Pas to the French Museum of Natural History, which sponsored most of his expeditions...
...California this was big news. For the past four years able Sculptor Lovet-Lorski ("Lorochka" to his friends) has been the darling of San Francisco and Los Angeles intellectuals, because of his frequent trips to the west coast...
...second stop at Dallas, its third at Tucson, all 14 passengers were stowed away for the night. Next morning, at Los -Angeles, the fourth stop, they rose for breakfast on the ground after a trip far happier than any, U. S. night plane traveler had ever experienced on the coast-to-coast run. Cost...