Word: inlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inland States, with dark hints of air raids: "Adequate defense means that for the protection not only of our coasts but also of our communities far removed from the coast we must keep any potential enemy many hundreds of miles from our continental limits...
Young Hourtley had planned to voyage on the inland coast waterway. "I would have made it, too, if it hadn't been for the confounded Coast Guard," he said...
Seen today, now that all this is known, the conquering advance of General Chiang -first 600 miles from Canton inland to Hankow ("The Chicago of China"); then 600 miles down the Yangtze River to Shanghai ("The New York of China") and Nanking-was not primarily a great feat of arms. General Chiang had not yet developed many of his great qualities. He was almost an out-&-out puppet of the Soviet Union, but, as both Japan and Russia have found to their cost, no Chinese ever fully sells himself or China...
Notable, too, was Norman Soong's cool eyewitness account of the Panay bombing and sinking, and of the passengers' flight inland. At deferred press rate of 13? a word, that 5,220-word story was a bargain, would have been worth the 73?-a-word urgent cable rate used on the hottest news "breaks." Messrs. Mayell's and Alley's films of the power-diving Japanese planes will be something to see in the U. S. next week if local police departments do not censor them as too inflammatory...
...Persons from inland Europe are brachycephalic or short-headed, while their children reared in New York and Boston become much more long-headed or dolichocephalic. This reaction may be due to the more favorable physiological action of the thyroid gland in a maritime environment, since the inland Continental regions are so frequently low in surface iodine and thyroid disturbances are prevalent...