Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, newsgatherers discovered one of many local "drives" that are to be held to raise $5,000,000. The quota assigned to New York City was modest in proportion to its size and wealth-$100 each from only 4,000 Fundamentalists. But the Bryanites were sure the metropolis must harbor at least that many. A Brooklyn undertaker and three clergymen were the first assistants engaged by one Malcolm M. Lockhart, onetime solicitor for the Near East Relief, who now styled himself "militant Fundamentalist" and headed the Manhattan drive. Driver Lockhart was prepared to issue certificates, each carrying a vote...
...Nassau is warm. Nassau is wet. The sun, striking through Nassau's clear ocean shallows to coral bottom, paints them a variety of shore-sea greens and blues to which not even a penny postcard can do justice. When the Munson liner Munargo anchors outside the bar-guarded harbor and the stubby tender puts out from town with homegoers, people on shore feel sorry for people on the tender. People on the tender feel sorry for themselves. They yearn, usually, for "just one more cocktail, one last swim...
...Padden of Indian Harbor, Labrador one of the foremost assistants to Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, will be at Phillips Brooks House at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. He will receive all former workers for The Grenfell Missionary and also all men interested in working for the Mission in Newfoundland or Labrador this summer...
...educations are not wasted, although there be many misfits in the advanced educational palaces of today, and consequently he does not, as some may claim, attempt to repel the surging wave of American youth into the colleges, professional and technical schools which may or may not be anxious to harbor them. His objective, as connoted by his versed opinions seems to be this, that a clear understanding of what real education is, may be gained, just where to look for it, and just who is fit for advanced education, and who will better serve his community and himself by immediate...
...Rico, 1,400 miles from Manhattan. The Virgin Islands were, as every schoolboy knows, discovered by Columbus in 1494 on his second voyage to the Americas. They were purchased by the U. S. in 1917 from Denmark for $25,000,000. They are not big (132 square miles); the harbor of St. Thomas looks like a baby Golden Gate. In this realm live several hundred Americans, Danes and Spaniards, 20,000 Negroes. They plant sugar, have tropic fun. A few of them are disgruntled because the U. S. has not yet granted them citizenship. The population has been steadily decreasing...