Word: continentals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Guianas. Between the high Tumac-Humac mountains and the Atlantic lies Guiana, storied and fabled since first sighted by Christopher Columbus. Properly speaking there are three Guianas-British, Dutch, French. Nothing so conduces to a realization of the positively alarming size of the South American Continent as to peer at...
No panic resulted from the epidemic of mild influenza which for three weeks has spread eastward from California across the continent. Although more than 40,000 people were officially reported sick with the disease and another 200,000 estimated so, the deaths were few. This epidemic has revealed no such...
Throughout Europe the dry aspect of the Hoover victory continues to set best minds powerfully a-pondering. Suspicions stir that U. S. post-War prosperity may be due in large measure to prohibition. Just now the golden fetish of "American Methods" has wondrous kudos on the Continent (see France "American...
The Byrd Expedition during its 18 months on the continent will make thorough explorations within the range of its two planes and of its several dog teams.
Commander Byrd's aim is to explore the South Polar continent. It contains 5,000,000 square miles; is covered, except for its margins during its summer, with thick ice. There may be a water channel all the way across it, joining the Ross and Weddell Seas. There are...