Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...land the flyer contemplated the two tinges of blue sky and bluer sea. Once he dipped to scoot cheerily close to the steamer Amsterdam. Once he scuttled through a sudden rain squall. Land notched the horizon far ahead. From there he flew over nearly nine hundred miles of "Islands in the Lesser Antilles. At St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands he got down. Speeches. When he left the following day a family of Morons, island aristocrats, petitioned the government to change the name of their property where the Spirit of St. Louis landed from Mosquito Bay to Lindbergh...
From the Lesser to the Greater Antilles the flyer took the tiniest hop of his trip. San Juan, Porto Rico was only 90 miles away. Col. Lindbergh doubled the distance by flying out of his way in a sharp arc to give natives of St. Croix Island a glimpse of him in passing. At San Juan he had three notable experiences. The first was an orderly and properly policed landing. The propensities of crowds on three continents to smash police lines wherever formed around a Lindbergh terminal was checked in Porto Rico. Six hundred native police, local militia...
...territories are united under our flag. The whole of Istria, with Gorizia, Gradisca and Trieste as far as the River Isonzo, the city and Province of Zara, the island of Cherso, Lussin Grande and Lus-sin Piccolo, Lagosta and Pelagosa, as well as southeastern Slavonia, are now in Italian hands. Northern Corinthia and Styria are now Austrian. Northern Belanja and the Province of Mur are now Hungarian. The Eastern Banat is now Rumanian. The Provinces of Vidin and Stredac are now Bulgarian. Scutari in Northern Albania is now Albanian...
...Philadelphia and Dwight P. Robinson & Co. Inc. of Manhattan. The four already have contracts for $100,000,000 worth of work in the U. S., South America, Spain. At their head is Dwight Parker Robinson, 58, who, as first president of the International Shipbuilding Corp., developed Hog Island ship yards during the War. Before that he was Stone & Webster's master of engineering and construction activities. And before that he earned de- grees from both Harvard (A.B.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Crimson players' defeat at the hands of the Rhode Island hoopmen was somewhat of an upset in basketball for followers of both teams. A decided slump was shown in the Harvard players' spirit and speed which had carried them to victory in the three games previous...