Word: jamestowne
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...highest dunes were swept away by mountainous seas which carved a new coastline. Well Rock lighthouse at Point Judith was hammered down. So was Prudence Island lighthouse, killing the tender's wife and son. Charlestown was wiped out. Seven school children were drowned in a bus on Jamestown Island...
...sight-seeing lecture with many a remark about the beauties of nearby Virginia. Upon returning to the hotel he easily sold the Smiths on the idea of a $75 trip through Virginia. Three weeks later the trio turned up in Manhattan, having been to Mt. Vernon, Arlington, Yorktown, Jamestown, Charlottesville, over the Skyline Drive to Gettysburg, Pa., then north through Harrisburg to Montreal, Ottawa, then south again through Lake Placid, Albany, Saratoga Springs, Mirror Lake and West Point...
...raining hard when the President's train puffed into Jamestown, N. Dak. next morning. Pulling on a slicker, he set out in an open car for a two-hour look at WPA projects, could not resist gloating over his luck when he returned...
...history at the University of California. A brisk, concise volume, Kino's account of his life, together with his "chatty" letters to the Duchess and others, gives one of the clearest pictures available of the daily life in the missions that were established more than 30 years before Jamestown was founded...
...Presidential yacht Potomac drew away from Richmond that afternoon for a cruise to Jamestown before returning to Washington, the shouting crowd on shore turned to Postmaster General Farley, who had been left behind, and demanded a speech. Then came the only crass note in a week-end of unsullied idealism. Bellowed Boss Farley, hands cupped to mouth...