Word: hinterlander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Montgomery McGovern, explorer: "I landed at Boston last week and immediately told the rocking-chair voyagers there the same tales of jungleering that I told last summer upon emerging from the Amazon hinterland (TIME, July 5). I told of civilizations antedating the Incas, of a human race so low that other natives call them animal folk, of finding caterpillars tough eating. At this time I did not stress the fact that I am a Buddhist priest, regularly authenticated in Tibet...
...Canada, still endures. It still remains the sole contact with civilization which many a far north community has. Last week it acquired the trading rights of Moravian missionaries among the grim fishermen of Labrador, bleak 400-mile fringe of northeast North America. Recent explorations indicate that the Labrador hinterland holds high hydro-electric power stores...
...seldom built of snow, but usually of driftwood and turfs; that William T. Lopp, onetime U. S. education chief for Alaska, got the Eskimos started in the reindeer industry, of which Carl Lomen is king; that there is said to be a mountain of jade in the wild hinterland; that Eskimo seamstresses wear their teeth to the gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch for a blowing bowhead; that flocks of duck, whose northward flight beyond Barrow is strong evidence of land...
...specific objects of the pact were said to be the return to Greece of Smyrna and its hinterland, and the occupation by Italy of Adalia (Turkey) and its hinterland along the Bagdad railway. Thus Italy would seize at last the territory promised her in the secret Pact of London (1915), which induced her to join the Allies in the World...
...matter has its serious aspects. The plight of Harvard graduates in extremely non-Harvard communities. It is well to admit that it is just a little hard to get very far into the hinterland of this country without dropping into the midst of one of these communities, and this is not at all as it should be. Many establishments have their public relations departments; Secretary Hoover is said to he several clerks whose sole duty it is to trace down all comments derogatory to secretary Hoover, and remove the sting which prompted them. One would hesitate to recommend exactly such...