Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sledge and ski trip over the Ross Shelf ice to the foot of the mountains and back, found coal traces in the range. His observations, coupled with prior ones farther north along the Ross Sea, indicated existence of a great coal bed only a few miles inland...
...Hebrides a tribe is burying some old men alive; in the Big Numbers Territory some monkey men with prehensile feet peer wildly out of the trees. The Johnsons gave a movie show of Charlie Chaplin for King Nagapate's cannibals in the Big Numbers Territory, next day went inland to see the cannibal village. No longer friendly, Nagapate's men seized them and were getting ready to eat them when, in the manner long familiar to adventure fiction, a British man-of-war on regular tour-of-inspection swung into the harbor, lowered a boat...
...only at the very beginning of Pleistocene time (many hundreds of thousands of years ago). On some of the tablelands, to quote Coleman's words, "No signs of glaciation were seen above the edge of the escarpment at 970 feet (aneroid), and a walk of four or five miles inland over the rolling surface of the tableland reaching 1.908 feet (aneroid), showed only angular blocks of Archaean rock of local origin. No foreign boulders were found, and the conclusion was reached that the southern part of the Long Range had never been glaciated...
...midst of a moving discourse by the President of the Megntzu Agricultural Society, bandit-soldiers rushed into the banquet hall. Roughly they herded the befuddled flower of Megntzu together, bundled them off to the railroad station, piled them aboard a train which chuffed off 200 miles inland to the end of the line. Cold sober now, the District Magistrate, the Garrison Commander, the Wireless Director and all their friends were forced to tramp over hard frozen roads to a cave high in the mountains. For their release the wily bandit of Megntzu demanded not one but four camel-loads...
Modern missionaries lead safe lives; the years are long past when cannibals ate them. But at the Africa Inland Mission Station in Kijabe is a little dwelling some 300 yards from the rest of the buildings. Hulda Stumpf, Secretary to the Head Missionary, lived there alone. She was 63, had been in Kijabe for 20 years. She had grown deaf in the Lord's service. Last week her body was found, attacked, bruised, smothered to death...