Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arranged last week was President Hoover's departure from Washington March 4. Immediately after Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes the oath, Citizen Hoover will be whisked to Manhattan by special train. There at 6 p. m. he will board the Panama Pacific Liner Pennsylvania, held seven hours for his convenience, and sail to Panama where he will stop for a week to try for giant sailfish before continuing to California on a Dollar Liner. With him will travel his son Allan, Citizens Arthur Mastick Hyde and Ray Lyman Wilbur, possibly Citizen Ogden Livingston Mills...
...Southern islands and even the mandated groups are our home coast. If we maneuver off them, we are only doing what the American Navy does when it maneuvers off California, Panama or Hawaii. Certainly no gesture of any kind is intended...
...right direction. Like many another yachtsman, he thinks he sails better on the starboard tack, possibly because he finds it more comfortable to hold the gunwale with his right hand while his left is on the tiller. Even-tempered, meticulous, laconic, Skipper Iselin dresses for sailing in a dilapidated Panama hat, corduroy trousers, bow tie. In 20 years of yachting on Long Island Sound, his friend Ed Willis, who is usually his "crew" on the Ace, has never heard him swear the great seagoing oaths with which most smallboat sailors try to compensate for the tinyness of their Victories...
...fact: Cosmic rays are less intense above the Isthmus of Panama than above more northerly California. Latitude, Dr. Millikan now admits, has a definite effect on cosmic rays. They are strongest near the earth's magnetic poles, weakest near the magnetic equator. Dr. Compton has been proclaiming just that...
After the War, Bufano moved to San Francisco, married, had a child, deserted wife & child to study terra cotta glazing and firing in China. He returned a convert to Oriental philosophy, living entirely on nuts, and set up a studio in the old Hawaiian building, left over from the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. His unworldly attitude soon caused the sheriff of San Francisco to attach all his personal belongings. Nut-eating Beniamino Bufano moved to Paris...