Word: cod
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...memento Britanniae, he took along an air-raid siren, which he intends to install at his Cape Cod home; he thought it would be a good way to call the swarming Kennedy children ashore from their boats...
...people had no money. All they owned was fishing equipment. All they ate was cod, bread, tea, wild berries. They were plagued with tuberculosis, scurvy, anemia, beriberi. They had never seen a doctor, and they treated their sick with charms: sugar blown into babies' eyes to cure them of ophthalmia, haddock fin bones to ward off rheumatism, burned nail parings to drive away sea boils. A scratch with a fish hook often meant infection and the loss of a limb...
Starting in its second active year, the C.A.A. pilot training course this year presents a considerably intensified program. As a part of the increased pace of defense preparations a summer course accommodating thirty was hold on Cape Cod from July 1 to August 15, and this winter the work will be compressed into the first semester...
...Artist Despujols' pupils are Fontainebleau alumni. Instead of a palace for their studio, they have a roomy, north-lighted barn which last year was Gull Hill School's stable, next year will be its gymnasium. Instead of Paris they have Provincetown. Artist Despujols looks at Cape Cod's scrub pines, sand dunes and squat frame houses with a cheerful eye. Says he: "It is not the Isle de France but it is equally paintable...
...news of a Fontainebleau art school on Cape Cod...