Word: horta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well, if thin, and spoke clearly. Before him knelt three consistorial lawyers, pleaders for three saints whose visages and deeds the people beheld upon great banners in St. Peter's-Andre Bobola, Polish Jesuit (1592-1657), Giovanni Leonardi Italian founder of a religious congregation (1541-1609), Salvador da Horta (1520-67), humble Spanish Franciscan lay brother. Thrice the lawyers begged the Pope-instanter, instantius and instantis-sime-to grant the canonizations. The Pope, imploring the guidance of the Holy Ghost, pronounced a formula of sanctification for each saint, then intoned a prayer while the bells of St. Peter...
...Horta in the Azores, some 500 miles off Lisbon, sped the mothership Schwabenland. Aboard were the world's most powerful catapult and two sleek new Dornier all-metal flying boats, the Aeolus and Zephir. High-winged monoplanes with sponsons, powered by two Junkers Diesel engines in tandem on the wing-top, they weigh ten tons, have a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Anchoring 100 miles off Horta, the Schwabenland prepared to send one plane non-stop to New York, the other to Bermuda, then to New York. Reason the start was from the Azores is that Lufthansa regards...
IRANI nosed over in the harbor of Horta "by an error of maneuvring," reported Balbo. One of its officers was killed, second to die in the second crackup since the squadron set out from Italy for the U. S. The accident was an excuse for General Balbo to decline a wearying round of ceremonies at Lisbon. However, he did find time for a bullfight in his honor, which he enjoyed so much that he gave his cigaret case to one matador, his revolver to another. In return he got a bull...
...Imperial Airways, which holds exclusive air rights on the islands. Imperial will fly the 3,699-mi. route between Bermuda, Azores and England in two daylight jumps, requiring an average cruising speed in excess of 130 m.p.h. At last report, Aeropostale had won from Portugal the exclusive rights at Horta, Azores (TIME, March 3). Observers last week predicted Aeropostale would gladly yield entry in return for a part in the transatlantic system...
...scouting fleet stationed in the Atlantic. This ship will carry members of the Harvard and Northwestern Naval Science units. The cruise leaves Boston on Saturday, June 21, and will take three weeks, returning about July 10. The ship will stop for three days at Fayal, in the island of Horta, in the Azores...