Word: southernmost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister of Health, last week pondered a compound problem of propriety, tolerance and human rights. The Provincial authorities of British Columbia had laid the problem be- fore him: they proposed that Canada exile or isolate several thousand of Canada's inhabitants upon lonely D'Arcy Island, off the southernmost tip of Vancouver Island...
...Sooner shall these mountains crumble into dust than the people of Argentina and Chile break the peace which they have sworn to maintain at the feet of Christ the Redeemer" As a bearer-of-goodwill from the U. S. approached the Cumbre, in the Christmas season, on the southernmost swing of his South American pilgrimage, the lofty Andean Christ seemed to attain a new significance, perhaps: "Peace on high, goodwill to continents...
...train starts out on a long point to a station called Jewfish. There the railway crosses an inlet to Key Largo and begins a unique run, 100 shimmering miles southwest into the Gulf of Mexico, to "America's Gibraltar," "the only frost-free city in the U. S.," the southernmost U. S. port and by 300 miles the nearest U. S. city to Panama, Key West...
...Their source is usually in the Caribbean, where an initial whirling motion is caused by the expansion of moist air over tropical waters. They then generally pursue a northern course gradually increasing in intensity so long as they remain over water. Curiously, due to lower barometric pressure on the southernmost side, the southern semicircle of these hurricanes is comparatively harmless. Mariners refer to the northern half as "the dangerous semi-circle," and the southern half as the "navigable semi-circle." They can usually rely upon "riding out" the "navigable semicircle" at anchor. Due to the rotating movement of the earth...
...southernmost of these is some thirty miles north of Muyil and about two miles back of the coastal village of Acomal, the northernmost settlement of the independent Indians. Acomal shows a use of realistic instead of conventionalized sculpture for mural decorations. This consists of the use of realistic human heads, sculptured in stone and affixed to temple exteriors. We found similar things on Cozumel Island, and the realistic head of a parrot on a building at Xkaret, which is on the coast north of Acomal...