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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain MacMillan has accomplished much in the Arctic: he found the caplining of Elisha Kent Kane, left at his "Farthest point north", in 1853; and he discovered the record of the British expedition of 1875 written by Captain Nares and left at Cape Sabine. He is the first to have reached Finlay Land, and the Northern, Eastern, and Southern sides of North Cornwall, as well as the first to have traveled along the Eastern shore of Ellesmere land from Cape Sabine to Clarence Head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACMILLAN SPEAKS HERE IN DECEMBER | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

...Shreveport, La., a puppy was stolen from the porch of one T. R. Renois. In its place was left a baby with a broken jaw. The baby soon died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...England from the U. S. and hastened to Mr. Sloan's transient London quarters. There they held a quick, pointed conference on combining European and American Fokker interests into a worldwide organization with factories on both continents and a centralized sales agency. Quickly after the talk Mr. Fokker left England in his private trimotored plane for a thorough inspection of European air activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: General Motors & Dornier | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Martin played an excellent defensive game, as did Heard, who substituted for Amberg at left half back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1933 SOCCER TEAM IS DOWNED BY WORCESTER | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...tendency towards such diversification in the fields of college research, while in keeping with the advance of modern science, is fast breaking up what is left of the homogeneity of the university of today. Moreover, it does not seem as if the problem of modern research was being administered in as efficient way as possible. In the welter of new chairs of various sciences which are being founded in the universities of the country, there are bound to be many duplications. Among graduate schools specializing in certain fields there are many whose aims and methods of teaching are the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHIPS, SHOES, SEALING WAX | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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