Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First Day. The "pastel dawn" was of course, at Friedrichshafen, Germany. In moving north, the ship circled Berlin before heading for Tokyo, 6,880 mi. away. Hearty Charles C. Younggreen of Milwaukee, President of the International Advertising Association there in convention, got to a microphone and said: "We greet the Graf Zeppelin as ambassador of good will to the entire world." The ship proceeded quietly over Danzig, Koenigsberg, the onetime Eastern War Front, into Russia...
Fourth Day. The sun rose at 2 a. m. The Graf Zeppelin kept north of war-troubled Manchuria, reached the sea, cut south down the Japanese Archipelago. The Japanese Government asked Commander Eckener by radio if he approved being cited "the guest of the nation." He replied that he preferred "a few hours' rest and sleep first." However, upon landing courtesy obliged him to eat dried chestnuts, dried cuttle fish, drink saki...
Great stone cities slumber, long ruined, in the jungle bush of lower North America. In Mexico the Aztecs, in Yucatan the Mayans developed civilizations which declined and fell so long ago that little is known of them today. Their traditions, lingering in the stones and exhumed jewelry of their cities, are of an antiquity admirably suited to folklore and epic poetry. Hence Payambé, "The First One," a new Mexican opera...
...When a bar of iron is placed inside a coil through which a current is flowing it becomes magnetized. The bar of iron when magnetized acquires, like the compass needle, poles north and south. When the current reverses, the poles change places-not instantaneously but with a delay. The process of delay is called the Law of Hysteresis...
...dream begins with a dreamlike name, "Le Palais de France." Its solid basis is a trapezoidal piece of Manhattan Island, 200 feet in shortest dimension, 498 feet in longest, just north of Columbus Circle, comprising the entire block in which the Century Theatre now stands. On this plot the dream will rise, garnished in every one of its 65 stories with the glories of modern French art and architecture. There is even a whisper that its walls may be of glass...