Word: archipelago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposite side of the globe from Ireland, off New Guinea in the Bismarck Archipelago, lies New Ireland. Last year the New Irishmen?black-skinned, woolly-haired, bug-eyed?saw a sight they had never seen before: a young white woman. They envied her mightily because, while they had only loincloths, she wore a bright red dress. Her chief reaction to them, though as recently as 30 years ago they were cannibals, was curiosity. For she was Dr. Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist. Soon she made herself popular, by the U. S. political trick of baby-kissing and by getting herself adopted into...
...outbreak of cholera in the Island of Bantayan, 300 mi. southeast of Manila, is causing uneasiness throughout the entire Philippine Archipelago. Governor General Dwight Filley Davis returned last week from a tour of the infested district, assured his fellow citizens the plague was under control. Robert Hart, chief quarantine officer of Manila, declared that city was quite safe. But it was learned the disease had spread from Bantayan to the neighboring islands of Cebu and Masbate despite a strict government quarantine which has stopped practically all commerce within the affected region. Especially miserable and hungry were the inhabitants...
...making repairs the girl pushed on through driving rains to Bangkok, 3,000 miles and four days from her goal. Yet perhaps the worst of the journey lay ahead of her: the perilous passage over Siam jungle and Java swamp, the 700-mi. water jump from the Indian Archipelago to Port Darwin...
...Woman of Andros, says Author Wilder, is based on the Andria, comedy of Latin Playwright Terence (circa 185-159 B. c.) which in turn was based on two lost plays by Greek Playwright Menander (342-291 B. c.). On Brynos, one of the lesser islands of the Greek Archipelago, lives Chrysis the courtesan, the woman from Andros. She is the scandal of the island, not because of her loose behavior, for she is both dignified and circumspect, but by her "airs and graces." She gives weekly banquets, to which she invites all the most attractive young men: they discuss high...
Discoveries. Wilkins discovered that Graham land was an icebound group of islands, now provisionally called the Antarctic Archipelago. He named new places after friends and backers?explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Flyer Carl Ben Eielson. Publisher William Randolph Hearst, and Geographers Finley and Bowman; also Lockheed (Aircraft), Mobiloil (Vacuum-Oil Co.), (Wright) Whirlwind...