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...southern chain of American sea-islands mentioned in Icelandic sagas of the loth century as part of Huitramanaland or Great Ireland. Portuguese sailors supplied data for a map which showed the islands in 1502. The Spanish arrived in 1512 and called the broad-beached land they found the "Golden Islands." It was from one of their missions, San José de Zapalo, that Sapeloe's name is derived...
...staggering cost of cablegrams sent by the League of Nations in an effort to persuade Bolivia and Paraguay to stop fighting (TIME, Dec. 17 & 24) was found last week to total 130,000 Swiss gold francs...
...this will come. I think it must come through Spirituality, through the awakening of all Russians to universal oneness with the Spirit Supreme. . . . That is my doctrine, the subject of my books and lectures. . . When that awakening has taken place Russia will have found herself. Then there may be a Head-some one man above others (gesturing in the air)-but perhaps very different from the Tsar. What will it matter, then...
Actually, the play was not very good and Actress Barrymore gave a bad performance. As a veiled religieuse she is found first in an old-men's home, later in a maternity home, lastly as the Mother Superior in an orphanage. In the first act (aged 19) she renounces her family, in the second (aged 29) she renounces her lover, in the third (aged 70) she persuades her orphans to renounce their plan of going on the streets to steal. A rambling, idle play, it had a few moments in which the hushed, sad peacefulness of cloistered life became...
...stabilizers small. The motor is a 65 h. p. midget radial, built by the Le Blond Aircraft Engine Corp. of Cincinnati. At the machine's centre of gravity is the cockpit with two seats side by side. That location of the cockpit helps maneuver the machine, Designer Babcock found in his tests. The plane...