Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prayers of relatives and friends and countrymen," he, his wife and child accompanied 1,200 colonists to Darien. They settled between Porto Bello and Cartagena, two strong Spanish ports, there intended to build a canal and establish a free trade route "whereby to Britain would be secured the key to the universe, enabling their possessors to give laws to both oceans and to become the arbiters of a commercial world." The Spanish soon drove the colony out. Paterson's family died. He returned to England, helped cement the frail union between Scotland and England, argued incessantly for international free...
...important corollary of that fact: advertisers long ago ceased to regard foreign language papers as the key to foreign colonies in U. S. cities...
...key and win a Rockne," chanted a blonde in a streamlined yellow dress. By the Chevrolet exhibit stood a tall young man in the red costume and black busby of the Scots Guards. A cinema showed, while a voice told, how Studebakers can tumble down a hill, be righted and driven off; how they can hurtle over bumps without capsizing or breaking springs. A jacked-up Hupmobile lit with a clavilux raced against a pastoral landscape conveying a dreamlike blonde who pretended to shift gears and then stared at the crowd, not replying to youths, flushed by dinner, who requested...
...ends of the U. S. Atlantic seaboard are rising, while the middle falls. Portland, Me. and Charleston. S. C. gain 7 to 15 in. elevation in a century. Boston. New York, Atlantic City, Philadelphia and Baltimore subside 3.5 to 11.5 in. a century. Key West seems stationary. The rises & falls seem to be rhythmic. Boston, now sinking, was on the up between 1847 and 1876, with most of the elevation gained between 1857 & 1858. The sudden gain, surmises Dr. William Fitch Cheney Jr. (Connecticut Agricultural College), was related to the Naples earthquake of 1857. Charleston had an earthquake...
...opening production had a Brobdingnagian minstrel show banked high on the mammoth stage, with scenery and costumes by Robert Edmond Jones, resident designer. Mr. Jones had also prepared a set for the battle of Fort McHenry where, 'mid Roxy's red glare. Francis Scott Key composed the national anthem. Only Pressagent Dexter Fellows of Ringling Bros. Circus could have done justice to the array of talent which Roxy brought together for the public to gape at and listen to for as long as two hours and as little as 75? including...