Word: inland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little mutual comprehension as Mr. Foster found in India. The pointed spire of the Compound Church pricks a sky too old to mind such petty prodding, and the Reverend Alurid Wilberforce's proselyting pricks even less effectively the soverign sufficiency of heathenism and of life. Tragedy grimaces from the Inland Sea, tragedy, modified at intervals, by humor, satiric, satisfying. And when one sees the figure of the old preacher and priest. Alurid, pathetic in his own futility, planning the lives of his family and friends quite with out success, when one glimpses his wife, dying of cancer, slowly and with...
...Loveridge of the Harvard zoology staff, who was for eight years an assistant game warden of the Tanganyika territory. Mechanics at the National Zoo built scores of collapsible crates. Keeper Frank Lowe of the Zoo was bidden along to care for animals captured. It was planned to push inland from Dar-es-Salaam, establish a base camp near the railroad and stay five or six months...
...Jarabub has been transferred from Egypt to Italy by an Italo-Egyptian Commission (TIME, Oct. 12, EGYPT), which made this important disposition of a virtually autonomous people while cruising about luxuriously in the Mediterranean (north of Jarabub) without troubling to land and make the awkward 270-mile trek inland to the oasis itself...
Then, in 1519, came Cortez, who stopped in Yucatan only long enough to pick up the shipwrecked priest, Jeronimo de Aguilar, before proceeding along the coast to Vera Cruz, whence he marched inland. The discovery of great wealth in upland Mexico, and later in Peru, turned the attentions of the Spanish conquistadores from Yucatan, where little gold was to be had. The conquest of the hot lowlands, inhabited by the valiant Mayas, was long delayed. The Indians have never given up the struggle for independence and in the eastern part of the Yucatan peninsula, called Quintana Roo, they have retained...
Home from collecting in South and Central America for the Museum of the American Indian, A. Hyatt Verrill of Manhattan related of Indians living inland from Oldbank, Panama, that they employ the Elizabethan expressions "Gadzooks," "forsooth," "marry," "yea," "nay," "thee," "ye." Explanation: in 1680, Buccaneer Batholomew Sharp sailed to Panama with 350 lusties in The Most Blessed Trinity. They looted, killed, burned out the Spaniards, founded Oldbank, where today live many a Sharp, many a Coxon, Hawkins, Ringrose (names of Sharp's lieutenants...