Word: corals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oakland, Calif., Miss Earhart's publicity-minded husband, George Palmer Putnam, went to comfort Mrs. Beatrice Noonan. Said he: "I have a hunch they are sitting somewhere on a coral island. . . . Fred's probably out sitting on a rock now catching their dinner with those fishing lines they had aboard. There'll be driftwood to make a fire. . . ." When this failed to cheer Mrs. Noonan, Mr. Putnam snapped: "It's this way. Bee. One of two things have happened. Either they were killed outright-and that must come to all of us sooner or later...
Fling a necklace of rough-cut emeralds on a blue tablecloth and you have what Bermuda looks like from an airplane winging southeast from the U. S. 10,000 ft. above the Atlantic. Only 22 miles long, the looped chain of low coral isles seems a tiny target to hit from Manhattan 783 miles away. But at 10,000 ft. a pilot can see 50 miles on a clear day and so can still spot his goal even if he misses 'it by that great a navigational error. Last week, as a Pan American Airways plane soared casually down...
...with boasts about the big barracuda he had caught. Colonel Wise could truthfully say: "We used them for bait." His biggest catch at Andros was a Great Blue shark that measured 11 ft. 7 in., weighed 954 lb. But far bigger ones, of course, got away, by getting into coral caves or snapping the heaviest lines...
Held to be one of the most successful character portrayals in early African art, the princess portrait breaks away from the traditional stylization of features, revealing great artistic skill and knowledge of anatomy. A cap of coral beads, with long pendants on either side, tops the head. The eyes are delicately inlaid with iron...
...with the coral...