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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They hated their war rations-soggy bread compounded of coconut meat and milk, maize, lablab (wild beans), arrowroot, flower petals; coffee from roasted coconut shreds; dried grass instead of tobacco-and their clothes were getting ragged. They were in dire need of wheat flour, sugar, lard, potatoes, matches and all kinds of processed supplies. Worst of all, they feared disease. So, when the ship indicated it would stop, they eagerly gathered up the leaf baskets, wood carvings, woven hats and bird feathers, which are their dollars, quarters, dimes and nickels, and stood by their longboats in the crescent of Bounty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PITCAIRN ISLAND: Relief | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...used German and English words in the same sentence, had not yet separated them into two systems. Unexplained were her choices between German and English words for the same thing: she preferred ice cream to Eiskrem, bathe to baden, flower to Blumen, cake to Kuchen. But she said bitte instead of please, Bett instead of bed, da instead of there, mehr instead of more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ice Cream v. Eiskrem | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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