Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...square mile as compared with 40 in the U. S. (In Barbados it is 1,000 to the square mile.) In one decade the population has increased 18%,. The result is that Porto Rico's resources, natural and economic, are exhausted. Birth Control, seriously agitated in the insular government, is blocked by the dominant Roman Catholic Church. Poverty and hunger are on all sides. A laborer is lucky to make $150 per year. Hookworm and tubercu- losis take a heavy toll. The hurricane of 1928 (called "San Filipe" by the natives) struck the island a $100,000,000 blow from...
...least he knew where and when to laugh, and just how hard. Melrose and the Boston Latin School were obviously impressed; the Vagabond had regained some of his lost prestige, though some sceptics may call his victory a hollow one. Now the Vagabond refuses to be called insular and provincial. He is willing to hold forth at great length on the cultural stimulus received from a closer liaison with the cinematic art of Europe, an art free from the sullying trends of Hollywood commercialism so the critics say, but before he goes to see "La Colliere de la Reine...
...after all, it's pretty hard to teach an old dog new tricks and, frankly, the Vagabond is not happy in his new lodgings, even the men who paint his tower have conspired to make him blue. The youngsters round about him seem happy, but the sound of insular accents and the sight of foreign customs are too much for an old traditionalist. And so, as the bells come in, the Vagabond goes out, back to Memorial Hall, that symbol of an old-and-not-to-be-despised Harvard...
Although J. A. Sisto & Co. carried a moderate number of trading accounts, it was known chiefly as an investment banking house. It was one of the largest dealers in U. S. pre-War bonds and insular and territory obligations. Likewise it became identified with many enterprises, all of which have been recognized in the Street as good small concerns. In the past, the firm has been identified with Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., Checker Cab Mfg. Corp., Curtis Publishing Co. and Parmelee Transportation Co. Generally considered to have been the Sisto stumbling block is Cosden Oil Co. which has suffered continued...
Last week, however, a commission of Congressmen headed by Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham, chairman of the Territories & Insular Affairs Committee, were aboard the 7,05O-ton cruiser Omaha en route from Honolulu to Pago Pago to consider at first hand the conflicting petitions and reports which Congress has received. While at Honolulu they had held sessions, heard much testimony from Samoans and others...