Word: rio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rose of the Rio Grande...
...arrival at Rio de Janeiro of Lieutenant Hinton of NC-4 and runaway balloon fame, in the flying ship Sampaio Correia II calls attention to another air achievement which will help to restore popular confidence in the commercial possibilities of long distance flying. The flight of the Sampaio Correia over the five and a half thousand miles between Pensacola and the capital of Brazil was accomplished in little over a hundred hours...
...something like the whisky made by bootleggers another that it was made of some kind of bean, and a third that it was an essence of sunflower seed; investigation, however, decided that it comes from a certain part of a cactus blossom, which grows somewhere along the Rio Grande. Its effects were clearly explained by the recorded statement of an Omaha: "After eating thirty-six peyote I got just like drunk, only more so, and more good than when I drink whisky." Another senator had heard that "the effect was to bring about a very beautiful state of mind...
Radio is transforming the otherwise harmless air into a veritable bucket-shop bedlam, with twenty-one thousand transmitting stations between the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande. The government itself has begun to display distress signals. The Kellogg-White Federal Radio Control Bill has been introduced to bring some sort of order out of the present chaos of jazz-bands, sermons, crop reports, and sporting syndicates running simultaneously on the same wave lengths...
...lectures by Dr. A. H. Rice '98, of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Anthropology. 1. Physical Outlines of South America. 2. Historical. 3. Bogota. 4. The North West Amazon's Valley. 5. The Great Rio Negro. 6. The Casiquiare Canal. Fridays and Tuesdays at 5.00 P. M., beginning Friday, December...