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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Along the mighty Alps great, dense, blue-black clouds discharged their heavy burdens of warm rain for many hours. Snow and ice became water as the endless rain from the sky beat down on the glaciers and a hundred snow-capped summits. Little pools formed and overflowed into rivulets and tore down the sides of the ravines into the streams that gurgled and splashed in their headlong course to the mightier rivers they feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIECHTENSTEIN: Flood | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...another in the treetops that the white-faced hunter had taken 2,500 lives out of feathery, furry bodies to stuff them with dead, hard matter. From the green lowlands, Dr. Chapin started up the side of a glacial mountain of the Ruwenzori Range. In sight of snow, 50 miles from the equator, his blackamoors, convinced that the strange whiteness was the touch of death, fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...Club will enter air meets at Worcester on Saturday and at Providence later in the season, it was announced yesterday at, the first meeting of the club. The new Curtis Travelair plane, entered in the air meets, will be piloted by A. V. Pabst 21., of Milwaukee, and Crocker Snow '28, of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flying Club to Enter Air Meet | 10/4/1927 | See Source »

Fact has ousted fancy from the legend of "Old Ironsides," and the Widener Library proved to be the means of authentication, according to an article in the current number of the Golden Book Magazine by Rear-Admiral Eliot Snow of the United States Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Manuscript by Eye-Witness Tells How Old Ironsides Shook the Mighty Deep--Widener Holds Valuable Document | 10/4/1927 | See Source »

...story of its discovery, as told by Admiral Snow, is a record of a quarter-century's search for truth in regard to the famous battle of the Constitution and the Guerriere. He learned from an old newspaper clipping some years ago that the bell of the Guerriere was supposed to be still in existence somewhere in New England, and while hunting for the elusive bell he came across an unpublished manuscript giving a complete history of "Old Ironsides." In a footnote to this manuscript the author mentioned a hitherto unknown work, "Scenes in the Last War," by Moses Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Manuscript by Eye-Witness Tells How Old Ironsides Shook the Mighty Deep--Widener Holds Valuable Document | 10/4/1927 | See Source »

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