The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 72National Geographic Society., 1938 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 364
... close to the earth , and also because the path lay near the Equator . Unfortunately , the maxi- mum duration , 7 minutes , 4 seconds , was 1,200 miles from land . On Canton Island it lasted 3 minutes , 33 seconds , the precious working ...
... close to the earth , and also because the path lay near the Equator . Unfortunately , the maxi- mum duration , 7 minutes , 4 seconds , was 1,200 miles from land . On Canton Island it lasted 3 minutes , 33 seconds , the precious working ...
Page 389
... close enough to signal and announced that she was the S. S. Niagara , of the Canadian Australasian Line , en route from Suva to Honolulu . Seeing the flares on a desert island , she had stood in to learn if we needed any- thing . When ...
... close enough to signal and announced that she was the S. S. Niagara , of the Canadian Australasian Line , en route from Suva to Honolulu . Seeing the flares on a desert island , she had stood in to learn if we needed any- thing . When ...
Page 608
... close to- gether in some places that they touch each other . They are half open to get water filled with plankton , and the sun lights up their internal mantles , which seem phos- phorescent , throwing out green , yellow , red , or ...
... close to- gether in some places that they touch each other . They are half open to get water filled with plankton , and the sun lights up their internal mantles , which seem phos- phorescent , throwing out green , yellow , red , or ...
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Machines Come to Mississippi By J R HILDEBRAND | 263 |
Magnolia State Mosaic Mississippi 26 ills in color from naturalcolor photographs | 279 |
Miracle of Talking by Telephone By F BARROWS COLTON | 395 |
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