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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Traveling by special train, yet with studied informality, Lord and Lady Willingdon arranged to receive, when they reached Vancouver last week, merely a simple greeting from Mayor Louis Taylor instead of an expensive formal welcome. Further to spare Vancouver all expense, they slept each night aboard their train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Dominion Notes | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...quirk of fate, the commander of the barracks, General Eleazar Lopez Contreras, had slept poorly and was up at an unusually early hour. . . . In the nick of time, just before the revolted battalion rushed up, General Contreras succeeded in organizing a defense to the barracks. Bullets spotted for two hours. . . . The Gomez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Early to Rise | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

When they reached India, they slept in a low dirty town: a wind, as hot and sticky as a conjurer's hand, passed slowly in the air. After breakfast, they flew away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Westward | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...Greenly Island, in bleak Belle Isle Straits, southern Labrador, the population of 14 slept a long night's worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Dublin to Labrador | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...orchestra trouped around Spain, slept in towns, hamlets & villages. Everywhere sprang up a latent desire for music, and musical organizations flourished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Facile Musicians | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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