Word: mosquito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale University, much to its probable discomfiture, has hatched another crop of mosquitoes to edit again the Harkness Hoot. These young posts hover over Yale's precious architecture, thumb their noses at its partially Gothic elegance, refuse to be in any way cowed by the Harkness millions, and take an unholy delight in the inconsistencies they see taking shape around them--particularly in the Gothic exterior of Pierson-Davenport College and its Georgian inner court. They helpfully offer as their own proposed Yale building a drawing of a very prettily designed small church of American colonial architecture topped with...
Flight Lieut. J. H. Boothman was given the honor of formally winning permanent possession of the Schneider Trophy. In a mosquito-like seaplane of blue & silver designated Super marine Rolls-Royce S-6B, he darted over the Solent at about 300 ft. altitude, taking wide turns at the corners of the course to guard against disqualification. His first two laps were the fastest, averaging 342.9 m. p. h. When he crossed the finish line and shot his plane skyward, to lose speed for a landing, his average time for the race...
Half a dozen flat-faced Eskimos and a little group of sad-eyed arctic puffins sat on the bleak rocks of Myggbukta (Mosquito Bay), Greenland, recently while a party of five explorers, snug-buttoned in woolies, tacked the Norwegian flag to an improvised flagstaff. The event seemed of only passing interest to the Eskimos and the puffins, but when news of it broke last week all Scandinavia seethed...
Nicaragua, U. S. citizens and other aliens in the little towns along the Mosquito Coast waited breathlessly for a repetition of the bandit raids which caused the slaughter at Logtown fortnight ago (TIME, April 27). In Washington Secretary Stimson stood firm under the lashings of Big Stick Advocates. The new Hoover-Stimson Nicaraguan policy was backed up by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson with an announcement to the effect that Britain, too, will not attempt to protect her nationals in Nicaragua's interior...
Puerto Cabezas, with its 300 U. S. residents, was panic-stricken at the news of the Logtown raid. Next came news that Sandino's bandits had fired Gracias a Dios, 60 mi. north along the Mosquito Coast. Puerto Cabezas knew it would be next. Women and children crowded aboard the Cefalu. In the harbor civilians armed themselves for the town's defense. The night was wild with rumor. Welcome indeed were the lights of the U. S. gunboat Asheville steaming in with a detachment of Marines. These were gingerly put ashore, thereby relieving a slim force of native Guardsmen...