Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heilner, he exposed himself to these much-maligned creatures repeatedly without their showing the least interest in him as a possible article of diet. It is to be feared, however, that even before such evidence the popular mind will cling to its delusion. Generations of South Sea Island movies in which a struggle between the hero and a shark is a prominent feature cannot but have their effect, and few frequenters of our bathing beaches will feel inclined to imitate Mr. Heilner's experiments if anything resembling a shark should appear off the shore...
Although arrangements for the new speed boat have not as yet been completed it probably will be similar to "Red Top" and will be approximately 27-feet long. The order will be sent to Greenport, Long Island next week...
...newly constructed 27-foot speed launch "Red Top," destined to be the flagship for Coach E. J. Brown '96, has been lost at sea, it was reported yesterday. The powerboat left Greenport, Long Island, early last Saturday morning to make the voyage to Cambridge. It was piloted by two men, one of them the designer of the craft, and was expected to complete the run by Monday afternoon. After passing through the Cape Cod canal, however, the "Red Top" and its crew disappeared...
From Quebec "Duke" Schiller, Canadian pilot, and Dr. Louis Cuisinier, French ace, left in a Canadian Transcontinental Airways Co. plane for Greenly Island. They returned with Major Fitzmaurice, whom the Irish Free State Government had just promoted from Commandant. The Germans remained behind...
...From Manhattan flew Fraulein Herta Junkers, handsome tall daughter of Professor Junkers, the plane's builder, in another Junkers, bearing equipment to Greenly Island to repair the disabled Bremen...