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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seagulls poised and wheeling in the hot blue sky above the Indian Ocean espied, last week, a long, low, incredibly slender ship, darting with splendid speed toward Aden, the Red Sea, Suez. A literate seagull might have spelled out upon the vessel's spume flecked prow the name H. M. S. Enterprise. Aboard and often on the bridge was a young man who is called by his Royal family simply "David." As he paced the bridge, engines of 80,000 horsepower thrust the frail 7,600-ton cruiser across the placid Indian Ocean at automobile speed: 40 m.p.h. Only...
...only men but gold emigrates to Argentina, which, paradoxically, was named by exploring Spaniards after the silver (argenta) which they expected but failed to find in her mountains. Last year Argentina borrowed more U. S. dollars than any other nation. Most of them she spent on developing the low-lying, fertile Pampas and the highland grazing grounds of Patagonia (see Map). To her especial credit is the fact that Argentina also spends millions on schools and public works, and possesses today the most literate population in South America...
Toronto came out of the north in 1922 and sent Harvard down to a 6-1 defeat at the Arena, and repeated the following year at 7-5. The Canadians laid the Crimson low in 1924, by 2-1 in New York and by 4-2 in Boston. But in 1925 the story was reversed, and through the work of W. M. Austin '25 and Clark Hodder '25, Harvard eked out a 2-1 victory. A 2-0 triumph rewarded Toronto in 1926, but the invaders fell, 4-1, the next year, and tied at 1-1. Last year...
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...minutes last week Parisians watched one of Juan de la Cierva's autogyros (TIME, Oct. 1) hang stationary in the air. The feat was possible because the autogyro can keep in horizontal flight at the remarkably low forward speed of 25 miles per hour and because it was headed, during its last week's demonstration, into a wind of just about the same speed...