Word: englis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: You will have incurred the wrath of all border readers of TIME, by your reference to the -'Scotch city of Carlyle" (TIME, Nov. 17, p. 22, col. 3). The gazetteer gives: "Carlyle. co. bor. Cumberland, Eng., on River Eden; important railway centre, anc. castle and cathedral, p. 52,600; also t. Penn. U. S. A." In spite of this TIME remains the best of weeklies. W. D. PUGH...
There was one very strange thing about this disaster. In similar dirigible wrecks, viz., those of the Shenandoah and the ZR2 (built by England, sold to the U. S.; destroyed over Hull, Eng., Aug. 1921), wind whirled the vessels high before their destruction. In the R-101'S case, the wind and rain seemed to have done the reverse, pressed the ship down to earth, buckled it from above...
...Janeiro fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 22) as "Miss Europe" and came away as runner-up to "Miss Universe," arrived in the U. S., made known her intention of giving lectures on ancient and modern Greek culture. Unusual among beauty-winners, she is intelligent, speaks (besides Greek) Eng lish, French, Italian, has no desire for stage or cinema fame. To newshawks she explained how she became Miss Europe: "My mother, some friends and I were at tea one day last year at the British Embassy in Athens when someone for fun suggested we go look at the beauty contest being held...
...chairman will be J. S. Tow, Acting Chinese Consul General in New York, who, not so occupied with tourists & immigrants as other consuls general, may devote much time to keeping peace among the Tongs. Signer of the pact for the Hip Sing Tong was its President, Author Eng Ying ("Eddie") Gong (TIME, June 2). When the six leaders had signed it, scribes translated the document into brushstrokes on cerise paper, sent it to every U. S. Chinatown, proclaiming Consul Tow and Commissioner Mulrooney overlords of all U. S. Chinese...
...Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company under a Crown charter John Winthrop, arch-Puritan, sailed from Eng land in March 1630, aboard the tiny Arbella. On June 12 he landed at Salem. With him were 900 settlers in eleven ships. They moved to the mouth of the Charles River where they built a village and called it Boston...