Word: formosae
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...frequently on McGovern reminiscences. These include boyhood in Brooklyn, a spell in the English theater, a junket to Tibet's Forbidden City of Lhasa, and his days as a Buddhist monk in Japan. He can also spin yarns about his explorations of Peru's Inca ruins and Formosa's head-hunting country. McGovern is a sound scholar withal, master of twelve languages, author of a Manual of Buddhist Philosophy, and From Luther to Hitler. He was one of the boys in the back room of Army & Navy Intelligence...
When I got back to the Department I found news from G-2 that a Japanese expedition had started. Five divisions had come down from Shantung and Shansi to Shanghai and there they had embarked on ships-thirty, forty or fifty ships-and have been sighted south of Formosa. I at once called up Hull and told him about it and sent copies to him and to the President...
Bill Goddard, 32, sapper in the Royal Engineers, weighed only 57 Ibs. when found in a Formosa prison camp last September. When he arrived at Vancouver's Military Hospital three months later he weighed in at 66. His skeletal body was racked with beriberi, pellagra, dysentery, malaria and pneumonia...
...helped free by founding . . . St. John's and by choosing its present campus." The president of St. John's alumni summoned to his alma mater's aid the shades of Francis Scott Key and Major General Allan McBride, who died in a prison camp at Formosa. Columbia's Professor Mark Van Doren added his testimonial to St. John's: "The best known, the most often discussed, the most often debated and the most widely copied liberal arts college in America...
...zaibatsu expect to lose their markets in China, Formosa, Korea and the South Seas. But the U.S. Army has not decided what shall be done about these great trusts, simply because it does not yet know enough about them...