Word: vias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventeen fur-bundled men and a fox terrier had passed in an airship completely up and over the Earth's icy pate, parting that wilderness as a comb might part the unexplored thatch of a wild man from Borneo. From Spitzbergen in Barent's Sea via the North Pole and the Pole of Inaccessibility, to Point Barrow, Alaska, they had peered out of their gondola for new lands, and in a strip of white waste 2,000 miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian...
...effect of this penscratching was of the first importance. It was seen at Paris when a Berlin-Paris air line was announced to commence operation in a few days by a German firm. Travelers will shortly be able to fly from London to Moscow via Paris and Berlin (nearly 2000 miles) for about The London to Moscow air route has, of course, been regularly operated for many months, via Amsterdam and Berlin...
...offer was made in January. The terms of the gift were redrawn by Premier Ziwar and his distinguished colleagues and returned to Mr. Rockefeller (via his representative Professor James H. Breasted, famed Egyptologist) (TIME, May 3). Mr. Rockefeller acquiesced in Egypt's terms?which it then repudiated, evidently fearing something deep and scheming beneath such apparent magnanimity...
...does not prosper they can say it was far too subtle for the masses; if it does they can say it was Art. All of which is a preliminary to saying that The Blind Goddess does accomplish its purpose. It is a murder melodrama with the guilty one convicted via dictaphone. This sounds like any cinema; the film is however one in which purpose and execution match...
...unfit to teach us Christianity. Some of them are admirable men, but I speak of the average, mediocre in mental calibre and unequipped intellectually to carry on the work," said Amherst-educated Count Aisuke Kabayama, member of the Japanese House of Peers, last week as he prepared to travel, via the U.S., for the coming Parliamentary Congress in London. A baptized member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he finds good in both Buddhism and Christianity...