Word: newfoundlands
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...territorial basis, the self-governing Dominions (Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, Irish Free State and Malta, all of which are largely sovereign Powers owing allegiance to a common King) have a total area of 7,471,938 square miles, which is slightly more than 55% of the area of all the land possessed in name by King George V, i. e. 13,357,672 square miles. Hence, since a choice must be made, it would seem to fall upon "Commonwealth...
Another object of the expedition is to investigate the Sargasso Sea, a drifting mass of seaweed in mid-Atlantic, about the latitude of Florida and the Canaries and about the longitude of the Newfoundland Banks. It is only gradually being disentangled from the popular legend surrounding it, although Christopher Columbus himself ran afoul of it on his first voyage to America. It has been asserted that the weeds are so thick that they entangle whole ships which never escape...
...Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, Newfoundland, Irish Free State, extent to which it is repugnant...
...dark places, I would draw your attention to your issue of Nov. 3, section Business and Finance, article on "Chain Hotels" that you speak of the "Admiral Beatty Hotel" being erected in St. Johns, Nova Scotia. There is no St. Johns in Nova Scotia. St. Johns is in Newfoundland. The Admiral Beatty Hotel is being erected not in Nova Scotia, but in St. John, New Brunswick, the well-known seaport, and one of the oldest cities in the Dominion...
From Belle Isle Straits over to Pictou, Newfoundland, from Pictou to Boston soared the U. S. globe fliers. Lieutenants Smith and Nelson had been rejoined by their comrade Wade, absent since his wreck at the Faroe Islands. At Boston, all three unbolted their pontoons, fastened on "land legs" in the shape of wheels, hopped off for Mitchel Field, L. I. A triumphal escort fanned out ahead and behind...