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Word: harboring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generally accepted that great hostelries harbor public characters for something less than the usual rate be cause of their advertising value. Under such an arrangement Calvin Coolidge lived at the New Willard in Washington when Vice President ; under such arrangement, Vice President Curtis lives at the Mayflower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Chateau Laurier & Old York | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

Following the observance of the eclipse, the University will act as host to the International Astronomical Union, in Cambridge, during the week of September 2. An intensive 7-day program has been prepared, which includes excursions to Boston Harbor, the Oak Ridge Station of the Observatory, and Wellesley College. The Observatory expects about 65 foreign delegates and 175 Americans to attend. They will be housed in the Radcliffe dormitories. The annual meeting will close with a general assembly on Friday, September 9, in the Alice Longfellow Hall of Radcliffe College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY TO SEND EXPEDITION TO VIEW ECLIPSE | 5/27/1932 | See Source »

...Macfadden." Owned by Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, the black-&-gold Lockheed Altair monoplane carried a 50-lb. payload, an additional gas tank in the rear cockpit where Publisher Macfadden was wont to ride about the U. S. Taking off from Newark Airport late at night, Pilot Reichers roared to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, in 6 hr. 19 min. As he taxied up the field, the plane's tail skid threw a rock through the fuselage, injuring the stabilizer controls. Quickly repairing the damage, he sped off for Paris via Dublin. When finally forced down by a cracked wing and fuel shortage, Pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Three Men on a Rope | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...York Harbor aboard a ferry boat, Harold Donahue and John Cusack, brokers, eyed a man of scholarly mien for a long time. They approached the man peered into his face. "You're Stalin!' accused Broker Donahue. The man protested that he was Dr. Cornelius Mezei, pathologist of Sea View Hospital. "You're Trotsky!" contradicted Broker Cusack, grasping Dr. Mezei firmly by the cravat When the boat docked, Brokers Donahue & Cusack turned their find over to Federal agents, who promptly released him. Said Dr. Mezei: "They wanted to see my passport. They said they were Secret Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Brokers | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...Massachusetts and the shad to Delaware, so is the lobster to Maine. Found only on the Atlantic coast from Henley Harbor, Labrador, to Cape Hatteras, N. C., the American lobster (Homarus americanus) is at its best off the coast of Maine, grows larger than its cousins down South. This advantage, upon which Maine's lobster industry was built, last week threatened to ruin it. Lobstermen setting their traps for the new season with halibut, herring and codfish heads anxiously questioned one another for news from Washington, where Maine's Congressmen Wallace Humphrey White Jr. and John Edward Nelson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Maine's Lobsters | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

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