Word: coast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flat and fertile Ontario and along the fish-flanked coast of Nova Scotia, voters were confronted with liquorish problems last week. Ontario's problem was whether or not to retain the Conservative Government of Premier George Howard Ferguson and in particular his beloved L. C. A. (Liquor Control Act) under which government liquor stores dole out their wares to the relief of the citizenry, to an annual profit of some $20,000,000 for the Provincial Treasury. Canadian Drys, Ontario Liberals and Progressives cried out against "Conservative wetness and corruption." Premier Ferguson pleaded chiefly, and successfully...
...Fund financed Lindbergh and Byrd in their undertakings. Fund money supported a weather service on the Pacific Coast, which the U. S. Government now runs. More money went to help the Royal Aeronautical Society (England), Aero-Club de France, Associazone Italiana d'Aerotecnica, Aero Club von Deutschland to collect and disseminate important technical information which otherwise would not be published. Syracuse University got $30,000 to develop aerial photographic surveying and mapping. For a flying laboratory in which to try out instruments which would permit flyers to go through fog and darkness went several thousand dollars; for prizes...
After all, one of the finest things about Boston is that it is one of the best places to go away from in the world. Rocky coast, sandy beach, blue-grey hills are all within easy striking distance. Consequently the effects of week-ending at Harvard are not usually so dire as those reported from the institutions which are situated in the country, and whose undergraduates therefore feel an attraction to the slightly spurious delights of the metropolis...
...Clubs on Friday November 22; a performance at the Harvard Club of Hingham, Friday, December 6 will be the second; next will be a joint concert at Roxbury Latin School, Friday, December 13; the fourth will be a joint program of the banjo and mandolin clubs and the Gold Coast Orchestra, with the Williams College Glee Club at Williams town, Saturday, December...
Captain MacMillan sailed for the Arctic in June 1927, from Wiscasset, Maine, on the schooner "Bowdoin", with the purpose of establishing a scientific research station on the north coast of Labrador. During the fall and winter of 1927 to 1928, contact with home was constantly maintained by radio, and the programs he received were also appreciated by the Eskimos as well as his whole party. This winter Captain MacMillan is telling, by story, motion pictures, and slides, the experiences of the expedition and some of the results obtained, as well as the accumulative results of previous expeditions...