Word: ni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest. Atlantic had won the last ocean race in 1925. A radio from Elena said that she was sailing beam to beam with the Atlantic. Passengers on liners peered at the horizon hoping to see a sail full of wind and salty adventure. Four little schooners-Mohawk, Niña, Pinta, Rofa-had set out from New York to Spain, a week before. They were expected to reach Santander at about the same time as the big ones. Little Niña, impish, came within seeing distance of the Cunarder Aquitania...
...next September, the occasion celebrated last week was considered an informal farewell to his officers. They opined that Pipe Major John Gillies of the Canadian Seaforth Highlanders well expressed their feelings when he presented a Gaelic sentiment on parchment to Lord and Lady Byng, saying "Nach bu mhaiseach an ni na'n robh thu tighinn thugain an aite bhi ga'r fargail...
...been gone from port. *Dr. Beebe's statement was broad, unscientific. Doubtless the Arcturus did not go far enough south to find the Humboldt Current. A report of Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History last spring (TIME, April 13) indicated that El Niño, a warm current from the north which encounters the Humboldt off the coast of Peru about Christmas time, appeared a trifle behind schedule last winter but in unusual volume and southward reach...
...Trumpet Kurt Schmeisser 4. Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi 5. Danse Macabre, Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens 6. The Music Box Liadov 7. Air, "Non piu andrai" from "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Charles H. Bennett, Baritone 8. The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner 9. Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier 10. "Kogawa no Hotori ni," "By the Brook" Seigi Abe 11. Waltz, "Roses from the South" Strauss
...Author. M. Andre Maurois was born in Normandy, and until after the War he had no opportunity for writing. He celebrated his literary freedom with Les Silences du Colonel Bramble, which received a stupendous reception for a first novel. Then followed Les Discours du Docteur O'Grady and Ni Ange Ni Bete. But his Ariel surpasses all, and M. Maurois has been well called "worthy disciple of Lytton Strachey...