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Down to a perfect landing at Natal, Brazil one afternoon last week slid a tiny, single-motored De Haviland-Gypsy biplane. Out of 'it, her sharp little face bright with joy, jumped a slim, 25-year-old girl who had just become the first woman to make a solo flight across the South Atlantic.* Hustling off for a cup of tea she said: "I'll fly on to Rio de Janeiro tomorrow...
...cracked-up twice, finally made it in 1934. Year later she flew back in record time, became the first woman to make the round trip solo. Last week she again took off from England, this time for a series of swift hops to Thies in Senegal, finally on to Natal for a flawless crossing in the record time of 13 hr. 15 min., despite bad weather...
...Vagabond strolled from his Tower and along the river he mused how good is this natal earth which gives us not only food for our bodies and stuff for our shelters but also feeds us with ideas and sentiments and beautiful sensations. And how good is art which does try to take nature as its teacher and is content to show...
...similar service was rendered by Mr. Gandhi during the savage Zulu Rebellion in Natal and he accepted from King George the highly coveted Kaiser-i-Hind medal, sent it back in 1920 when he began to preach "Civil Disobedience...
Other osteopaths who were grounded well enough in their subject to get places on the convention program, had the following remarks to make: ¶ "Many cases of congenital deafness in children can be traced to drugs administered to their mothers during the pre-natal period. The chief offender seems to be quinine, then the salicylates, then alcohol. Drugs circulating in the blood act upon the auditory nerve more often than any other nerve or special sense."-G. H. Meyers, Tulsa...