Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kabul grew too hot last week for gleaming-eyed, white-tusked King Habibullah, the savage onetime bandit who last winter wrested Afghanistan's throne from weak, well-meaning little King Amanullah (TIME, Jan. 28). All through the summer, Usurper Habibullah has been harassed by the lean, ruthless, white-chinned Nadir Khan, ill-famed for boiling his captured enemies in oil (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Nadir converged three armies of overwhelming might upon Kabul. Prudent Habibullah fled in an airplane to escape being French-fried. Without resistance the city fell. Since victorious Nadir was once a general...
...Africa. Waiting for him since last year at Deception Island is the airplane which he and Carl Ben Eielson flew over Graham Land (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928). Pilot Eielson now is in Alaska developing an aviation line for the Aviation Corp. With Sir Hubert are Parker Cramer, who this summer made a second unsuccessful try to fly from Illinois to Europe by way of the Arctic Ocean (TIME, July 15). Also along as a flyer is S. Alward Cheesman, Canadian pilot. They will attempt to fly the 2,000 miles from Deception Island to Little America, exploring the unknown coast...
...Sweet summer breeze, whispering trees...
...Film Corp. carries approximately $5,000,000 insurance on the life of William Fox. Last summer insurance men breathed fast when William Fox's motor, with William Fox inside, crashed on Long Island. (TIME...
...Last summer at Camp Morgan (Y. M. C. A.), near Washington, N. H., the old sanitation unit suddenly became a menacing plague spot. Some 100 boys at the camp were threatened with infection. What was to be done? An ingenious, tinkering counsellor, one Gordon Russell Whittum of Worcester, Mass., hurriedly destroyed the old unit, upon a concrete base built a clean, self-sanitizing latrine...