Word: easternmost
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tiki was doing all right. Last week, the men on the big log raft (modeled after an ancient Peruvian balsa) sighted the first land they had seen since leaving Callao, Peru, three months and 4,100 miles ago (TIME, April 21). It was the island of Puka Puka, easternmost atoll of the Tuamotu archipelago. To the six Scandinavian scientists on the Kon-Tiki, the smudge of land was proof of their theory that ancient, pre-Inca Indians might have traveled across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia on big, homemade rafts, carried by the south equatorial current. Sailing...
From the days when their forebears followed John Cabot to carve a rocky cornerstone for Britain's overseas empire, Newfoundlanders have been a hardy, God-fearing, independent people. Their neighbors in the Dominion of Canada have long reserved a place for them as the tenth and easternmost province, but the islanders have always elected to go their...
American divisions had hammered the bulge flat. In retaking Monschau, the troops regained the last of the German towns taken by Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's winter offensive. Krewinkel, the last German-held town in easternmost Belgium, fell. Now a new phase was opening...
North of Zakharov, in turn, the Third White Russian Army pressed against the easternmost reaches of East Prussia. Still farther north the First Baltic Army pushed deep into southern Latvia, to within 20 miles of Riga. The Germans said the Russians were driving with 40 divisions. In any event, the largest land army in the world was again on the move, its spearheads only 325 miles from Berlin...
From the East. Myitkyina was the easternmost end of the road to China. Already from Yunnan province another road was being freed to complete the route. Chinese forces who held that stretch had crossed the Salween River and last week were fighting for the road town of Tengyueh. With crude ladders they scaled the ancient walls built in Marco Polo's day, turned modern flamethrowers on the Japanese defenders. At week's end they had occupied the inner defenses. Between Tengyueh and Myitkyina there were no Japs...