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Word: continentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The British Empire is the greatest force for good the world has ever seen and possibly ever will see!" exclaimed General Smuts to correspondents, "The greatest problem before South Africa is the living together in peace and cooperation of a white and a black population. . . . If we fail in its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Blackamoor Bill | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

When strongly pressed to reveal the name of the first nation outside the continent of Europe on which Pope Pius XI will set foot, the Cardinal-Archbishop reflected for a moment, then answered cautiously, "perhaps Ireland."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Peter's Pence | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, flying from east to west across the continent swerved south to Eagle Pass, Tex., to Mexico City, to pay a visit.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, last week, and for the first time since he came to fame, made public tribute to his wife. It was 14 years and a month after they were married. He, in Antarctica, had just flown over and claimed for the U. S. unknown land in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mrs. Byrd's Land | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Lindbergh holds similar advisory positions with the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics (of which he is also a trustee); with the Trans-Continental Air Transport (for whom last week he started to fly across the continent via Mexico City); and with Pan-American Airways, Inc. (whose Florida-to-Panama mail route he inaugurated last fortnight). His salaries from these civilian organizations have never been made public. His contract with Pan-American Airways forbids his advising any other companies doing a foreign transport business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Lindbergh's Jobs | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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