Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reports on the Lindberghs became rare and perfunctory as they left Alaska and headed out over the Bering Sea to Siberia. Radio messages stated that they had paused at their fuel cache on Karagin Island off the Kamchatka Peninsula, then flown down to Petropavlovsk near the southmost tip of the peninsula. Next they would traverse the storm-ridden Kurile Islands to Tokyo where elaborate greetings awaited them...
...child called Constance May. When Rosina ("Pete") Fritz Flood died her husband promised to marry her sister Maude Lee. The second Mrs. Flood was a plump, quiet homebody, well-liked in San Francisco. Yet scandal does not die. In the little Redwood City court house (in the fashionable Peninsula district) spectators thronged last week to hear the Flood Affair dragged into the open. It was story-of-the-week for the newspapers...
...another 26 hours of their ahead-of-schedule time by giving their plane a minute overhaul, and taking 12 hours' sleep in preparation for the hazardous 2,100 mi. dash to Nome. They took off in the face of doubtful weather over the Gulf of Tartary. the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Bering Sea. This is the season of the 24-hour Arctic day. They reached Alaska without mishap, went on. The Winnie Mae stood in good chance of completing her course (via Edmonton and Cleveland) to Roosevelt Field on the tenth...
...Rotary Club, rehearsed the two operettas The Merry Widow and The Land of Smiles to entertain his fellow Rotarians during their visit. Most complex item of Rotarian business to be settled: whereas each Rotary club admits only one representative of each profession; and whereas in India and the Malay Peninsula the British lawyer and native lawyer practice in different courts; shall their practices be designated as distinct professions, a member of each admitted...
...aged 16, in Florence, Italy. To perpetuate his memory Senator & Mrs. Stanford had founded a university "free from traditions and precedents, one that will fit men and women for lives of service." The great Stanford horse farm in the wooded hills of Palo Alto, 30 miles "down the peninsula" (southeast) from San Francisco, was to be its site and all the Senator's wealth?some $30.000,000?would go to endow it. Because he wished it to be open to all, with tuition free, the Senator said: "The children of California shall be my children." He asked Dr. Jordan...