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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McAlpine, only after being warmed and fed, explained that they were the Canadian exploring party who were lost with their two seaplanes two months ago in a snowstorm over Queen Maud Sea. Out of fuel, they alighted on the water and dragged their planes to shore. They did not know that they were only 40 miles from the Fort St. James. Even had they known, they could not have crossed the water. After long delay the winter freeze arrived. Then came Eskimos who guided them over the jagged ice to hospitality. Colonel McAlpine had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...session. Present Vice-Chamberlain of Britain is burly Jack Hayes, Laborite, one-time heavyweight boxer, onetime metropolitan policeman. More than most Laborite factotums of the Court he is irked by his gaudy trappings. Occasionally he rebels. Last month an oil tanker hove back to England's shore from a Mediterranean cruise and out upon the dock stepped Vice-Chamberlain & Mrs. Hayes with their daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tanker Jack | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...discovered the record of the British expedition of 1875 written by Captain Nares and left at Cape Sabine. He is the first to have reached Finlay Land, and the Northern, Eastern, and Southern sides of North Cornwall, as well as the first to have traveled along the Eastern shore of Ellesmere land from Cape Sabine to Clarence Head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACMILLAN SPEAKS HERE IN DECEMBER | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

...north shore of Lake Erie lay a contorted pile of scrap iron, all that was left of the freighter M. J. Nessen. The crew, twelve men, a woman, was rescued before the ship broke up. On a sandbar nearby was lodged the steel sandsucker C. M. Caldwell. A crew of 18, gambling that she would ride the storm, stayed aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Lake Boats | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Beginning with an exhibition of the various tools and the lines made by these instruments, the process is carried through to the final production of the rich, velvety print which is characteristic of drypoint. The picture is enhanced by the setting of Mr. Hall's studio along the North Shore. Close-up views of the artist at work and of details of the plate at various stages make clear the understanding of prints produced by this process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUNDATION FILMS ART OF DRYPOINT | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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