Word: hinterlands
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...Australians swear that this knee-wagging hip-smacking, arm-swinging dance, commonly thought by the U. S. to have originated with Carolina Negroes, started as a war dance in the Australian hinterland...
...considerable tract of land" is worth in this instance $250,000,000. The Privy Council awarded it to Newfoundland a fortnight ago, and quashed the claim which Canada has pressed for 25 years that Newfoundland should have only the "edge or margin" and Canada the hinterland or "inland" coast, rich in vast mineral deposits unsuspected by George...
...prevailing principle which requires restaurateurs to subject themselves to the transfenestral gave of the curious will be done away with by the installation of six private booths in the hinterland of the Bar where a moderate amount of privacy may be enjoyed in addition to the luxury of being served...
...Significance: possible use of Rocky Mountain waterpower current in the Mississippi Valley, of Niagara's power in Manhattan, of Muscle Shoals by the southern hinterland; power for farmers; de-centralization of industry...
...McGovern, recently returned from a trip in the unknown hinterland of the Amazon basin, after uncovering traces of civilization antidating that of the ancient Incas by hundreds of years...