Word: novae
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since their arrival in the U. S. By a somewhat circuitous route most of the bad spots were avoided until near Newfoundland when fog forced the flyers to climb to 3,000 ft. Their closest call Capt. Coste described in the New York Times. Hugging the coast of Nova Scotia so as not to lose sight of land, they flew beneath lowhanging rain clouds: ". . . We flew on, skirting a precipice. Suddenly there loomed up out of the mist another precipice on our port side. We were caught between the steep banks of a river. . . . It was a tight place. Bellonte...
...Halifax, Dartmouth and on Cape Breton Island, thirsty Nova Scotians queued up on the sidewalk white shutters came down, doors were opened and government liquor stores began to operate for the first time since Nova Scotia formally abandoned Prohibition last November (TIME...
...Nova Scotia's drought did not pass bloodlessly. At Truro, whose government liquor store could not be opened for another sennight for lack of supplies, the Rev. D. J. Grant, Chief Inspector of Nova Scotia under the old Nova Scotia Temperance Act staged a last-minute raid on the old Maritime Hotel, long suspected as a speakeasy. Raiders carried out one half-bottle of contraband rum but their chief, the Rev. D. J. Grant, had to be removed to hospital, severely battered...
...ground. It can thrive only in wet (or at least moist) places, where it can probe for worms without bending or breaking its bill. That it may spy its enemies while it feeds, its eyes-large, nearsighted, goggling-are close together near the top of its head. Found from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, it is migratory, a fly-by-night beneath Spring and Autumn moons. Sportsmen find it hard to hit because of its erratic, dodging flight. But, foolish, it seldom flies far. Clumsy gunners can sometimes flush and shoot at the same woodcock a half-dozen, times...
Vital to Canada has been the need of rehabilitating British Empire Steel. In scope and assets the company is second only to the Dominion's two railroads. Practically the entire industrial life of Nova Scotia depends on it. Yet the task has been tremendous. A great funded debt, some of it with large accrued interest, preferred stock in arrears, receivership suits and bank liens have complicated the problem. And added to this has been the rivalry between the steel and coal interests, each fearful of the other. A pleasing coincidence to Englishmen was the fact that strong hands in both...