Word: circular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers of the Court Circular of the London Times last week learned that another U. S. heiress had become a British peeress. Mrs. Cara Leland Broughton was the elevated lady. Sister of Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, Manhattan oil tycoon, and aunt of much-married Millicent Rogers Salm Ramos, she is a recent widow of Urban Hanlon Broughton, a British engineering tycoon, to whom a title had long been promised. Britons found more interest in the new title than in the new peeress who bore it. By Royal decree, Mrs. Broughton became Cara, Baroness Fairhaven, in honor of the fishing village...
...will feel free to use as you think wise, and publish if you think it has sufficient news value. It shows the scene that greets my eyes each morning as I come across the Bay from my home at Mosman into the gates of the City, i. c., Circular Quay. This is the first view of Sydney seen by every visiting American. I would be happy to send one of these book plates to every helper who cares to cooperate...
...field. It was remodeled and enlarged just a year ago. Now it must be altered again at great cost. Airport ideas presented at Manhattan included underground passages to holes where planes would be waiting ready to start, great landing platforms over steamship piers, and a community arrangement around a circular field, its buildings rising in height as they recede from the centre. Next month at Cleveland, engineers will meet with architects, city planners, and flyers in an attempt to design best types of airports for various services. Lack of ports, like lack of trained flyers, is hampering...
With the rapid changes which are constantly being made in the attempt to adjust the circular system to the divisional examinations and the distinction theses, it seems highly probable that the time is not far removed when Seniors who are candidates for distinction will be relieved of all regular work during the last half of the year, when the demands of divisional examinations are falling most heavily upon them...
Certainly much larger is the yet unfound meteorite which ripped into northeastern Arizona an unknown number of years ago and formed Meteor Crater (also called Coon Butte) about two miles east of Canyon Diablo. That meteorite ploughed a circular hole 4,000 ft. in diameter. 600 ft. deep, and threw up a rim 150 ft. above the surrounding plain. For years miners have been trying to locate its buried mass, for the sake of its iron and nickel...