Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peaches, Peonies. Britain's dirigible R-100 ended her 13-day visit to Canada last week (TIME, Aug. 11), sailed for home with a new tear in her fabric, one of her six motors disabled as the result of a side-flight over Toronto, Ottawa and Niagara, and with nine English and Canadian news correspondents aboard. Freight and express revenues estimated at $500,000 had to be rejected in accordance with Air Ministry orders. Only excess cargo was a bunch of peonies for King George from Viscount Willingdon, governor-general; and a box of Canadian peaches for the Prince...
...Percy Williams, Canadian sprinter: a 100-metre dash event in Toronto, breaking by 1/10 sec. the world's record of 10 4/10 sec. set by Charles Paddock...
...find communication by signs is more accurate. They talk with a single hand, as do the deaf of the rest of the Americas, of Ireland and Europe. English and Australian deaf use both hands. When W. W. McDougall of England addressed the Buffalo convention he required John Shilton of Toronto to interpret...
...fountain pen. But he published Aldous Huxley as willingly as he published James Moffatt's translation of the Bible. And in such versatility lay George Henry Doran's prowess as a publisher. His career's milestones have not been many. He was born in Toronto in 1869, began selling books when he was 15. In 1908 he left Fleming H. Revell Co., Manhattan religious publishers, of which he had become a vice president, to form his own house. In 1928 he merged with Doubleday, Page & Co. which became Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc. Last week, aged 61, he resigned from Doubleday...
Canadian Airways planes fly from Montreal to Toronto. Western Canada Airways operates from Calgary east to Winnipeg. Between Winnipeg and Cochrane, Ont. is a vast expanse favorable for flying, which might be made an extensive air link in an air-rail system, cutting nearly two days from the trans-Canada trip...