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Going. In Battle Harbor, Labrador, a place of gray rock domes, fretted shoreline, low islands: and a horizon studded with icebergs, the Bowdoin, flagship of Explorer Donald B. MacMillan's Polar expedition, lay at anchor waiting for her consort, the Peary. When the latter turned up, she explained that a fierce storm near the Strait of Belle Isle had forced her to heave to for fear of damage to the expedition's three Navy planes which she carried lashed to her decks. Board screens had been erected against the hammering seas and no damage was done...
...children. It numbers 28 rooms, including eleven master bedrooms, a huge reception room, a dining room, sun-parlor, music room and six servants' bedrooms. Across the entire rear of the house, facing the bay, are porches. A lawn slopes down to the water. The view includes Egg Rock, recently converted by the Massachusetts legislature into the Henry Cabot Lodge Memorial Bird Sanctuary, and across the Bay, on the Nahant promontory, the home of the late Senator himself. On the grounds is also a swimming pool which the President examined but expressed no intention of using. Its temperature is 55?...
...foundation of the Great West Road is of 12 in. of stone or other hard substance, on which is placed 9 in. of cement and a wearing surface of 2 in. of rock asphalt. It is 120 ft. wide for most of its length and a space of approximately 25 ft. has been left for future widening. Footpaths run at either side and planting of trees 60 ft. apart has begun...
...Wiart, President of the Conference, in his final speech, "44 [Persia dropped out] States, members and nonmembers, came to the Conference. And today, in spite of 'Jonahs,' we are able to present to the world a solid structure, not built on clouds, but founded on a rock of solid realities. Reduction of armaments is not yet achieved, but an important step has been made toward it. Let us render thanks to the League of Nations...
...used it for lamp-wicks. Mined from veins in the earth, white or gray horn-blende-asbestos may have fibres five or six feet long, but brittle. Serpentine-asbestos has shorter fibres, yellow or greenish, of great tensile strength and elasticity. Canada (near Quebec) is a great source. The rock is quarried, cobbed by hand, dried, crushed, rolled, divided by "fiberizers," graded, woven...