The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 49National Geographic Society, 1926 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... less than a day and a half , is a modern romance of trans- portation as fascinating as any that comes to us out of the colorful past . It is the undying spirit of the Old Frontier aflame again , that restless torch 3 once borne by ...
... less than a day and a half , is a modern romance of trans- portation as fascinating as any that comes to us out of the colorful past . It is the undying spirit of the Old Frontier aflame again , that restless torch 3 once borne by ...
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... less heroic , task to " keep the mail in the air . " And all through one bitter winter , after their fire , the Chey- enne force carried on day and night , out on the shelterless plain , defying tempest and storm . Above the angry voice ...
... less heroic , task to " keep the mail in the air . " And all through one bitter winter , after their fire , the Chey- enne force carried on day and night , out on the shelterless plain , defying tempest and storm . Above the angry voice ...
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... less crack - ups than any other pilot in the service . Flown over 300,000 miles with the mail , and not all of it , by any means , on starlit nights like this . " I remember one midnight last March when Lee brought the mail in from Chi ...
... less crack - ups than any other pilot in the service . Flown over 300,000 miles with the mail , and not all of it , by any means , on starlit nights like this . " I remember one midnight last March when Lee brought the mail in from Chi ...
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... less than 50 feet wide . The town is two miles long and consists of two rows of houses . The street is so narrow that the residents can sit on their front porches and shake hands with passing motorists . and that was four years ago ...
... less than 50 feet wide . The town is two miles long and consists of two rows of houses . The street is so narrow that the residents can sit on their front porches and shake hands with passing motorists . and that was four years ago ...
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... less hazard , two feet above the surface of the field . We did not stay to offer our assistance , but hurriedly fed our thirsty mount with water , gasoline , and oil and took off for Salt Lake , Photograph by Frank E. Caldwell and ...
... less hazard , two feet above the surface of the field . We did not stay to offer our assistance , but hurriedly fed our thirsty mount with water , gasoline , and oil and took off for Salt Lake , Photograph by Frank E. Caldwell and ...
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Page 72 - Yet to be come at by the breeze; He did not cease, but cooed and cooed, And somewhat pensively he wooed; He sang of love, with quiet blending, Slow to begin and never ending; Of serious faith and inward glee, That was the song, the song for me.
Page 306 - dust. The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes, or it prospers ; and anon, Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two, is gone.
Page 67 - I heard a stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day; His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come at by the breeze; He did not cease, but cooed and cooed, And somewhat pensively he wooed; He sang of love, with quiet blending, Slow to begin and never ending; Of serious faith and inward glee, That was the song, the song for me.
Page 174 - Paracelsus": Are there not . . . dear Michal, Two points in the adventure of a diver, One—when, a beggar, he prepares to plunge. One—when, a prince, he rises with his pearl? The
Page 304 - with whom a thousand years are as one day and one day as a thousand years—
Page 549 - and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate can e'er return.
Page 571 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out"; and
Page 457 - of the National Geographic Society by the first of the month to affect the following month's issue. For instance, if you desire the address changed for your May number, the Society should be notified of your new address not later than April first.
Page 191 - To enjoy true happiness, we must travel into a very far country, and even out of ourselves, for the Pearl we seek for is
Page 611 - summit was ever seen, we took the liberty of giving it a name. It will appear on our maps as Mount Logan, in honor of Sir William E. Logan, founder and long director of the Geological Survey of Canada.