Word: hinterlander
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...bureau does not think that television addicts will ever get their favorite programs in the hinterland by aiming their antennae at the moon. The reflected signal is far too weak for standard television sets. Another trouble: the signal would be reflected from many places on the moon. So the moonstruck TV screen would show a tangle of ghosts, just as if the transmitter were surrounded by tall buildings. But messages by way of the. moon may become a dependable aid to long-distance communications by radiotelegraph and radiotelephone...
Caston has also invaded the hinterland. This winter the orchestra will brave snow & ice on bus trips to such cities as Cheyenne, Wyo., Fort Morgan, Colo, and Scottsbluff, Neb. As usual, Caston & Co. will play matinees for the children. After all, he and his musicians expect to be in the Rocky Mountains a long time...
...myth surrounding the origin of the cry "Rhinehart," is that Hearst expressed his art-collecting yen too early and too casually. In short, his gift to several professors of their visages etched on the bottom of chamber-pots proved that the Harvard of President Eliot did not have the hinterland sense of humor...
...myth surrounding the origin of the cry "Rhinehart," is that Hearst expressed his art-collecting yen too early and too casually. In short, his gift to several professors of their visages etched on the bottom of chamber-pots proved that the Harvard of President Eliot did not have the hinterland sense of humor...
...Tribesmen strategy is to head for a small village, pick up the dialect and try to make friends with the natives, then push on into the hinterland where white men have never been. They are steeled to the fact that conversions will be few & far between, even to the possibility of being received with war hatchets or poisoned arrows. Five missionaries were killed in Bolivia by Indians in 1943. But in spite of hardship and hazard, New Tribes attracts plenty of candidates for its work. There are 190 of them overseas-mostly in South America-living on about...