Word: inlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a boat buyer,* if his boat is delivered in time, will cruise to Florida this winter over the Government-promoted inland waterway from New York City to Miami (1,460 nautical miles). Each year some 2,500 boats from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and surrounding States motor down through the network of rivers, streams and canals (there is still 50 miles of open sea). Like touring autoists, waterway tourists use road maps (Government charts), obey traffic signals (buoys). They treat sailing vessels as autoists treat pedestrians, park at anchorages instead of garages. Diehard water-gypsies...
CHUNKING, Szechuan Province--Japanese warplanes, ranging more than 1000 miles inland, today struck their first major blow at the now Chinese capital here, pouring explosives into civilian areas and killing and wounding more than 200 civilian Chinese. There were nearly 80 planes participating in the raid which was described as the most devastating since the bombing of Canton...
...Atherton '05, President of the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation; Edgar B. Stern '07, former President of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange; Francis Biddle '09, former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board; Clarence B. Randall '12, former President of the Associated Harvard Clubs, vice-president of the Inland Steel Co.; and William Tudor Gardiner '14, ex-Governor of Maine, and former Overseer...
...Boer" is the Dutch form of the English word "boor" in its original meaning-farmer. In the 1830s the Dutch farmers in South Africa decided they would rather live among Zulus and Basutos than live under the thumbs of greedy English traders. Accordingly they set out in oxcarts, migrated inland. Years later they were absorbed again by the spreading sponge of British rule which made them not-too-loyal citizens of the U. S. A. (Union of South Africa...
...have devoted much study to the hurricane which on that day cut a swath of destruction through New England. Last week Director Charles Franklin Brooks of Harvard's Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory at Milton, Mass., declared that sea spray picked up by the storm was carried 50 miles inland...