Word: insularly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four additions to the series here listed illustrate this decline. Only one of the four, Ouroboros, is of compelling interest and originality. In Lycurgus, Mr. Haynes endeavors to write for the laity but waxes excessively technical and seldom escapes his insular British point of view. His style is unrelieved by the figures and crispness that have become part of the "Today and Tomorrow" tradition. He moves solemnly through a thicket of statutory references to the conclusions, neither of them unique, that society needs to simplify and codify its laws, that individual liberty is vanishing in the face of collectivist economic...
...Macdonald: Why were the Locarno Treaties consummated without consulting the Dominions? . . . I cannot conceive of so insular a system of conducting the imperial foreign policy as other than calamitous...
...honor of being the third American Governor of our Virgin Islands and speak from first-hand knowledge and experience. There are no federal judges in the Virgin Islands and never have been. The judges are insular district judges and are appointed by the Governor. There have been only five American Governors thus far, namely: Oliver, Oman, Kittelle, Hough and Williams, all senior officers of the Navy of from 35 to 40 years' service. There is no maladministration in the islands nor has there been any during the American occupation. Our insular government is highly efficient, economical and beneficient...
...Bull Insular Steamship Co., which bought one ship, the Lake Winthrop...
...Airplanes cannot fly across the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific Ocean to any point on our coasts or within our continental territory with bombs heavy enough to do any serious damage. The situation as to other continental or insular powers having potential enemies contiguous to their borders is wholly different and bears no analogy to ours...