Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1929 Herminia Peralta Dargie died, her devoted Captain Martin (but not Joe Knowland) at her bedside. To Captain Martin she left ("as I would have done had he been my son") one-half of her residuary estate, the other half going to her sister, Mrs. Josefa Peralta Wilson. Taking...
Dr. Hrdlicka has long maintained that the ancestors of American Indians were Mongolians who crossed from Asia to Alaska over a land bridge some 15,000 years ago. That bridge has since crumbled away, leaving only the stepping-stones of the smoky Aleutian Islands. During ten summers Dr. Hrdlicka has...
One sunbright afternoon last week Imperial Airways' 24-ton, clean-bodied Caribou cleaved a spuming white wake through Southampton harbor, rose and winged northwest on the first flight of her long-planned transatlantic mail service. Three hours later she put in briefly at the Foynes, Eire marine base, rose...
From canoes to coal barges, Parisians are sentimental about anything that floats on the oily Seine. But best-loved of all their chowchow river traffic were the slim little green-and-white bateaux mouches (fly boats), which took to the water during the 1900 exposition, have since ferried some 42...
In a studio perched high above Madison Avenue, Stan Shaw, with an engineer and an assistant, stands watch over two turntables, a microphone, 10,000 records and two telegraph receiving machines. He gets anywhere from 150 to 250 request telegrams each morning. Most come from Manhattan's metropolitan area...