Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lady Maria Zaharoff, 56, wife of Sir Basil Zaharoff, at the Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo, of pneumonia (see Monaco...
...Oxford" do not give "bathysophical," but if one reasons from the analogy of "bathymetric" and "bathygraphic," it is not hard to get the meaning of "bathysophical." To one versed in his Greek roots it should give a keen pleasure to have this adjective applied to the late Prince of Monaco, who was most wise in things pertaining to the depths...
...average only three or four miles submerged but in some places far, far deeper. All this territory is unexplored, save here and there by blind plummets and groping dragnets. So for years Dr. Hartman, financially independent, has experimented-aided by that bathysophical enthusiast, the late Prince of Monaco ; by colleagues in the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences ; and by the U. S. Navy- with a battleship-steel, plate-glass-windowed chamber in which he would cause himself to be lowered to ocean depths far more profound than any living man had previously attained...
...Tanganyika, Yap, to which number should probably be added the countries on which no report has been made at all: Andorra, Ethiopia, Liberia, Muscat, Nauru, Siam, the Togolands (British and French). Practically within this group are countries which have sent less than five immigrants : Arabian Peninsula, French Cameroon, Japan,* Monaco, Samoa, Southwest Africa...
...principality of Monaco, a tiny country embedded in the French Riviera, eight square miles in area, sounded the League on how its application for membership would be received. "Too small," said the League. Said Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor...